Re: [9fans] Help for home user discovering Plan 9

[Eris Discordia <eris.discordia@gmail.com>]

> If you phrased this slightly more gently, people may in fact agree
> with you.

They'd be agreeing with the wrong formulation, then.

> But Plan 9 is a great environment to experiment in.

Sure. So is every nascent or vestigial system.

Anyhow, the thread's originator says he's interested in computer systems in
a very autotelic way. So, applications don't matter a lot; he's going to
dine on the contents of the Petri dish no matter what :-D

--On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:52 PM +0200 lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:

>> but I
>> don't think you can get much from it by way of productivity, unless you
>> intend to get productive in software engineering and/or computer science.
>
> If you phrased this slightly more gently, people may in fact agree
> with you.  Although I find my workstation quite a useful mail agent,
> perhaps for all the wrong reasons (the best way to describe it:
> acme/Mail is *fast*!).
>
> But Plan 9 is a great environment to experiment in.  Perhaps you ought
> to look upon it as the Petri dish for information technology: concepts
> grow a great deal faster in Plan 9 than they do elsewhere, for all the
> _right_ reasons.
>
> ++L
>
>