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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: plan 9
Date: Mon,  2 Sep 2002 08:16:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209020815120.18673-100000@xed.acl.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <597ca2592aa02de823cfe89d8d28c7f2@plan9.bell-labs.com>

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Russ Cox wrote:

> Plan 9 _is_ object-oriented (in the original Smalltalk
> sense, not the perverted C++ sense).  Its objects are files.
> If all you're going to do is troll, go away.

this is the frustrating thing which I hit all the time. I tell people
about Plan 9 and they bring up Mach or some other disaster (K42 is the
latest in this long list) and say those other OO systems are better. Why?
Well, because. Because why? well, it's OO. arg.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-02 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-02 12:28 Russ Cox
2002-09-02 14:16 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-03  0:35 Geoff Collyer
2002-09-02 14:44 Russ Cox
2002-09-04  2:37 ` Eric Dorman
2002-08-30  9:57 [9fans] " Isaac Stern
2002-09-02  9:13 ` [9fans] " Nick Roberts
2002-09-02 10:11   ` Lucio De Re
2002-09-02 12:09   ` Steve Kilbane
2002-09-02 14:14   ` Ronald G Minnich

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