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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:49:18 +1100
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL
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as it was intended.

On 3/24/06, ems <oat@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I prefer "everything is accessed like a file"
>
> -- ems
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:39 -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> > Brantley Coile wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone else see this?  More cultures?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > One of the more interesting to me is waserror()/poperror() vs. goto.
> >
> > Also, I've realized nobody in Unix understands Plan 9. It took me a
> > while. The worst thing ever done was to say that in Plan 9, 'everything
> > is a file'. It's not. It would have been much better to say 'everything
> > is a server', maybe. But the 'everything is a file' totally muddies the
> > discussion, and confuses people, to the point that you actually have to
> > unwind the discussion and start over -- each and every time.
> >
> > ron
>