> "The KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) acronym has been popular in business
for decades, but its message has never been more important and, or useful
for many." -- Rob Tannen

    yes!!


>
> > BTW, I hate porting bloatware to clean, compact and efficient Plan 9.
>
so do i, however, sometimes time  (and, in my case, skills) is not
sufficient to clean-up the mess that accumulated in the code over years, and
different maintainers), sigh...
So, instead of trying to port (the language part) of GNU R, I am learning
S+/R and rewriting to plain C, just now...
BTW, S(+) language originated in Bell Labs, didn't it? However, its clone,
R, has grown into monstrous all-capable all-inclusive application, or
platform per se.

"i hate applications. true computing is black. c++ is to c, as lung cancer
is to lung ;-)"

++pac