From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:20:13 +0000 From: Wladimir Mutel Message-ID: <8k4us1$1h9q$1@pandora.alkar.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r References: <3964F2E9.961F0BBE@cybercafe.com.ua>, <8k4c5r$19k2$1@pandora.alkar.net>, <3965D3F5.832E19D4@cybercafe.com.ua> Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan-9 is too archaic. ... yet. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d60b7e92-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Alt 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. -- mwg@alkar.net, 340044, 7442333, 7786458 - Владимир Мутель