From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris McGee Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 08:40:28 -0400 Message-Id: References: In-Reply-To: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Is Plan 9 C "Less Dangerous?" Topicbox-Message-UUID: e0ad199e-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Thanks everyone. This is pretty much what I expected was the case. I just wa= nted to confirm my understanding. Plan 9 C was re-engineered with some focus on readable code. Readability is expected to make bugs more apparent, m= aking it less =E2=80=9Cdangerous.=E2=80=9D Linux is so huge and hard to read= that even simple things like C have become sharp edges that cut people. Whi= le the idea that many eyes makes bugs shallower seems to have failed in the w= orld of complex behemoth software it may work here. I=E2=80=99ve read some of the 9front kernel code trying to make it work on r= aspberry pi. I admit that I didn=E2=80=99t find any bugs at that time. The c= ode is relatively easy to follow even for me. So, I suppose it=E2=80=99s wor= king nicely. Chris > On Sep 3, 2018, at 12:07 AM, Lucio De Re wrote: >=20 >> On 9/2/18, hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote: >> "prevailing wisdom" sounds like an oxymoron. >>=20 > Yes, real wisdom is for some (evolutionary? counter-evolutionary?) > reason unlikely to prevail. >=20 > Go figure. >=20 > Lucio. >=20