From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130325013654.GA99552@intma.in> References: <20130325013654.GA99552@intma.in> From: Dan Cross Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:42:09 -0400 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec5555662fac9df04d8b5eac0 Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3379de02-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --bcaec5555662fac9df04d8b5eac0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Yeah. Or someone who is arguably the biggest problem on the list adding absolutely nothing other than some uninformed, dogmatically driven, rigid meta-commentary. Maybe that's all that person can do. He should keep feeling smug while turning the crank, though: he obviously knows more than the guy who designed and wrote most of it. On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 09:20:04PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote: > > Eh, not so much anymore. The morlocks have taken over, which is a shame: > > 9fans used to be one of the best technical mailing lists on the Internet. > > Those days are long gone. The ankle biters are too numerous now. > > > > (Cue requisite flames.) > > > > - Dan C. > > > > I agree. It's horrible that you can't seem to have any sort of > technical discussion these days without some guy butting in and telling > everyone to shut up because computers are so crazy fast that nothing > even matters, or that nobody else cares about the technology involved, > etc. It's a shame. > > khm > > --bcaec5555662fac9df04d8b5eac0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Yeah. =C2=A0Or someone who is arguably the biggest problem= on the list adding absolutely nothing other than some uninformed, dogmatic= ally driven, rigid meta-commentary. =C2=A0Maybe that's all that person = can do. =C2=A0He should keep feeling smug while turning the crank, though: = he obviously knows more than the guy who designed and wrote most of it.


On Sun, Mar 2= 4, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 09:20:04PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote= :
> Eh, not so much anymore. =C2=A0The morlocks have taken over, which is = a shame:
> 9fans used to be one of the best technical mailing lists on the Intern= et.
> =C2=A0Those days are long gone. =C2=A0The ankle biters are too numerou= s now.
>
> (Cue requisite flames.)
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 - Dan C.
>

I agree. =C2=A0It's horrible that you can't seem to have any = sort of
technical discussion these days without some guy butting in and telling
everyone to shut up because computers are so crazy fast that nothing
even matters, or that nobody else cares about the technology involved,
etc. =C2=A0It's a shame.

khm


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