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From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme aborts on a pointless Edit command
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:24:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7871fcf50712240924u21f50958p6e09de377534e609@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14e680f0d51dc56e123a1847843f33a8@quanstro.net>

On Dec 24, 2007 12:25 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> i'd be willing to give it a pass if it whined a bit, but aborting
> on user input is a bit antisocial.

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to move lines
around and back, doing nothing.  Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I
don't.  Excuse me while I go and abort()."

--Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-24 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-24  4:17 Anthony Martin
2007-12-24  4:28 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-12-24  4:37   ` Anthony Martin
2007-12-24  9:50   ` Rob Pike
2007-12-24  5:25 ` erik quanstrom
2007-12-24 17:24   ` Joel C. Salomon [this message]
2007-12-24 17:35     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-12-25  1:51       ` [9fans] ipod + plan9 Philipp
2007-12-25  5:20         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-12-26 12:52 ` [9fans] Acme aborts on a pointless Edit command roger peppe
2007-12-26 17:52   ` ron minnich
2007-12-27  3:36 ` Rob Pike
2007-12-28  6:08 Joshua Wood

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