From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: plan 9
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Date: Mon,  2 Sep 2002 08:16:17 -0600
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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