[9fans] Re: Plan-9 is too archaic. ... yet.

[Wladimir Mutel <mwg@alkar.net>]

Alt <alter@cybercafe.com.ua> wrote:

>> > However, Plan-9 have UNIX-like user interface.

>>         Where ? In command-line level - perhaps.

> Yes.
> Why I have to write echo "reboot" > reboot ?
> I prefer to write
> this.reboot = reboot

	Plan9 had not yet accumulated enough complicacy to manage it by C++
	or other OO- means. I was wondering too why there is no C++ in Plan9 
	base. I realized gradually that with low and well-organized Plan9 
	complexity, plain C is enough for it, just like it was for Unix at 
	the beginning.

>>         Hope, you do not mean 'acme' or 'plumbing'
>>         ideas are Unix-like ? :>

> It is very small step.

	Too large steps may be destructive too.

>> >> > What I would like to see ?
>> >> > 1. Absolutely new User Interface.
>> >> > 2. Multidimensional information resources (files) system.
>> >> > 3. New World-Wide (Global) information storage, and its search
>> >> > technology.
>> >> > 4. Technologies of dynamic recompilation of code.

> UNIX is not an OS yet, it's un ideology.
> and I view at the Plan9 as a pretender to be a ground of the new ideology.

	Yes Plan9 is revolutionary in ideology. But not in aspects 1..4 you
	would like to see there.

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