From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <10dbee28fd716af5821d5bc0d780e205@kw.quanstro.net> References: <20100416115756.GA1107@polynum.com> <4BC836D2020000CC000269E3@wlgw07.wlu.ca> <4BC855DF020000CC00026A46@wlgw07.wlu.ca> <004001cadd84$7254c4a0$56fe4de0$@gmail.com> <4BC861F8020000CC00026A88@wlgw07.wlu.ca> <10dbee28fd716af5821d5bc0d780e205@kw.quanstro.net> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:46:08 +0200 Message-ID: From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] TeX: hurrah! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 049481ca-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 One question. Anyone tried get LaTeX on this TeX port? What are the missing pieces to make it run on it? On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:17 PM, erik quanstrom wro= te: >> I'm beginning to get the impression (or perhaps >> more accurately am increasingly getting the >> impression) that the plan9 community is reactionary >> rather than progressive... not a good characteristic >> if one is trying to make advances in comparison with >> one's predecessors... > > i think the plan 9 community does come off as reactionary. > we tend to fight change too often to no effect or declare > things as depricated and useless when they are not. > > i don't think that object-oriented design is one of these. > especially as implemented by c++. =C2=A0i think limbo or > go's approach to this (regardless of what you think of the > langage) is much more sensible. =C2=A0go of course, goes a little > further in what you can do with an interface. > > - erik > >