From: 9nut@9netics.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting in trying out Plan 9
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:35:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf1cfcb2faf8dda290aa2363080c3ea9@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67eeb267d9faceefa33f43e0d2e684af@collyer.net>
> I didn't actually propose calling it ``Plan 9 for Dummies'', and the
> intent was to make it easy for people to try Plan 9 and to explain
> what was interesting about it, particulary in contradistinction to
> other systems. This seems to be necessary, since even quite a few
> smart Unix people don't understand, unassisted, why Plan 9 is more
> interesting and worthwhile.
Something in the style of "The UNIX Programming Environment"
would be very useful. It would reintroduce people to the tool
building philosophy. Cool networking scripts like chat posted here a
while back are great examples of doing nontrivial applications
with scripts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-17 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-16 10:35 Joel Konkle-Parker
2004-02-16 10:53 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-16 11:11 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-02-16 11:13 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-16 15:35 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-16 15:44 ` C H Forsyth
2004-02-16 15:53 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-16 16:36 ` ron minnich
2004-02-16 16:49 ` matt
2004-02-16 17:04 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-16 17:03 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-16 19:08 ` 9nut
2004-02-17 0:15 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-17 0:32 ` Scott Schwartz
2004-02-19 18:50 ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-02-17 1:35 ` 9nut [this message]
2004-02-16 15:58 ` Jim Choate
2004-02-16 16:31 ` ron minnich
2004-02-16 16:38 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-17 4:38 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-17 13:34 ` Brantley Coile
2004-02-17 14:26 ` matt
2004-02-17 14:33 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-17 14:58 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-17 15:03 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-17 15:14 ` Brantley Coile
2004-02-17 15:29 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-17 22:17 ` Steve Kilbane
2004-02-18 6:39 ` dmr
2004-02-18 8:13 ` 9nut
2004-02-18 10:02 ` Richard Miller
2004-02-16 17:36 ` 9nut
2004-02-17 20:06 dmr
2004-02-18 3:58 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-18 4:06 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-18 10:50 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-18 14:12 ` ron minnich
2004-02-18 14:56 ` C H Forsyth
2004-02-18 15:03 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-19 4:17 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-02-18 15:08 ` ron minnich
2004-02-18 15:28 ` matt
2004-02-18 16:38 ` ron minnich
2004-02-18 17:06 ` matt
2004-02-18 23:15 ` David Cantrell
2004-02-18 23:25 ` matt
2004-02-18 23:42 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-19 3:43 ` Micah Stetson
2004-02-19 4:29 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-19 5:43 ` Micah Stetson
2004-02-19 5:06 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-18 20:15 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-02-19 9:03 ` boyd, rounin
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402180755420.19583-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov >
2004-02-18 17:08 ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-02-18 23:27 ` ron minnich
2004-02-19 10:26 ` vic zandy
2004-02-19 14:47 ` ron minnich
2004-02-20 2:26 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-20 3:18 ` ron minnich
2004-02-18 15:14 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-18 15:01 ` Dave Lukes
2004-02-18 15:17 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-19 1:02 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-02-19 2:18 ` ron minnich
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