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Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9
From: benavento@gmail.com (Federico G. Benavento)
Date: Wed,  7 Jun 2006 20:32:12 -0300
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> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:56:35AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
>> Good evening.
> 
> Why do you always put the appropriate greeting of the day in your emails?
> 
>> > I have neither the morale nor the power to write even a single line of
>> > code for this new  "integrated graphical desktop environment" on Plan 9
>> > -- I merely intend to assemble the work that others are doing; I'm like
>> > a child clumsily playing with lego bricks. The best that I can do is
>> > help write the gluework to get it working together nicely.
>> 
>> So why are you discussing this, when you are not going to write any source
>> code?
> 
> Because he doesn't want to invent a new window system and programming
> abstractions for it, but he's interesting in using one if it already exists?
> Why shouldn't he discuss it?
> 
> What a stupid, arrogantly elitist attitude.
> 
>> That is only a propaganda position and not a technical one. Propaganda is
>> boring.
> 
> More wisdom from the IRC crowd.  What, collectively, have you people ever
> done?  We're still waiting for Uriel's 9load replacement, if I recall
> correctly.
> 

you can run "9fs sources; cd /n/sources/contrib/zwansch; ls", can you?

judging all "the IRC crowd" by what uriel said is the same as judging all 9fans by what you say.

Federico G. Benavento