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From: Nick LaForge <nicklaforge@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 is dead
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:53:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEE9J-XGsVM-XAOSgpCLcirMK_KUXWyuAym6Sbh8VBGnu7Hcrg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJQxxwkHd4wRWp4t0QF+hDXEVowgsADRnR6RMwpiT2RD+2gVKg@mail.gmail.com>

O rinnovarsi o perire

http://books.google.com/books?id=n_p0TmPHIJwC&pg=PA166&q=O%20rinnovarsi%20o%20perire

Anyway, I guess you're pissed that you have to use Hg and install
Python?  Sorry, but Plan 9 can't reinvent the wheel in 2011.

Just consider how MIT dropped Scheme for Python in intro courses.  Toy
language construction no longer precedes practical programming;
likewise, who outside 9fans would use a replica replacement?  So why
write one?  Better to focus on what counts as Sussman did with
Scheme/SICP which is instead offered to advanced students who better
appreciate it (6.945).

Plus, it's never been a committee. (Would Plan 9 seem less dead to you
if others stopped working on it?)

On 9/15/11, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> just when the bunny was out of the bag ...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEZbtpdckJA
>
> On 16 September 2011 06:17, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:56:54 PDT David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>> > Christoph Lohmann wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hello,
>>> >>
>>> >> now that an academic non-polished Plan 9 remake with idiotic
>>> >> dependencies and the fun OS, which has its only goal to add
>>> >> political jokes, are taking all the pace, I hereby declare,
>>> >> that Plan 9 is MORE ALIVE THAN EVER.
>>> >>
>>> >> Rest In Peace.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Sincerely,
>>> >>
>>> >> Christoph Lohmann
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> > FTFY
>>> >
>>> > Giving a new direction to plan 9 is, in a sense, a death.  Death is the
>>> gateway to a new beginning.
>>>
>>> Plan 9 is dead, long live Plan 9.
>>
>> Don't nix Plan9! Nix Plan9!
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Don't meddle in the mouth -- MVS (0416935147, +1-513-3BRUCEE)
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-15 14:01 Christoph Lohmann
2011-09-15 15:57 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-09-15 16:26 ` cinap_lenrek
2011-09-15 16:42   ` Digby Tarvin
2011-09-15 18:21 ` Jack Norton
2011-09-15 19:56   ` David Leimbach
2011-09-15 20:17     ` Bakul Shah
2011-09-15 20:46       ` Bruce Ellis
2011-09-15 21:53         ` Nick LaForge [this message]
2011-09-18  9:36 ` Pär Moberg
2011-09-18  9:38   ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-18  9:48   ` dexen deVries
2011-09-15 16:52 EBo

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