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Date: Wed,  2 Jun 2004 10:12:17 -0600
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GNU Make
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Charles Forsyth wrote:

> Numeric codes are a bad idea, that plan 9 was well rid of from unix.
> they do not scale well in a distributed system with distributed
> development.

I agree with everything you're saying. But if you're going to 
interoperate with Unix systems, there aren't a lot of options. 

After all, strcmp() on a table of error strings is hardly an improvement 
over numeric codes.

ron