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Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting in trying out Plan 9
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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:35:08 -0800
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> 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.