Re: [9fans] Re: interesting potential targets for plan 9 and/or inferno

["Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>]

On 3/16/07, ramkromberg@mail.com <ramkromberg@mail.com> wrote:
> If plan9 can reach students as part of OS design course instead of linux their`s a good
> chance it will get more wide spread (PlanB?), this should be possible because linux is
> really badly conceptualized and programmed so a professor might prefer the well written
> code of plan9, unfortunately professors are really busy people that won't try plan9 without
> a good academic buzz around it - Care to write a paper ?

So all we need is a new Operating Systems textbook using Plan 9 for
example code?

Sounds reasonable: when I took OSs last semester, the professor was
using Linux kernel code, heavily edited for readability; I could
usually find the same functionality in the Plan 9 kernel code with
more readable code.

--Joel