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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan9 Programming languages ! -- PASCAL?
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:15:16 +0000
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"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> writes:

> "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote:
> > B: I wonder why Plan 9 hasn't caught on more than it has.
> > Maybe it's because people reject our brilliance.
>
> I frankly don't want Plan 9 to become market-driven.
> Better a good set of well-designed tools to do those
> things that are worth doing than an inferior set of
> poorly designed tools to do things that ought not to
> be done.

Is typesetting not something worth doing well?