From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] So What is P9 good for..... From: "rob pike, esq." In-Reply-To: <98b94a6949552dc3aa03d60ef4d245ef@plan9.bell-labs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:44:12 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5fdf8a94-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > not too mention having to recompile the compiler every now and > then with a bigger symbol table, 14 character file names, fixed > size process table, ... 512 bytes of arguments to commands. yes, echo * was pretty limited and a typical modern gcc compile line wouldn't even get past the -Ws. -rob