From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 02:21:19 -0600 To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>, "hugo rivera" From: "EBo" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: , Subject: Re: [9fans] MPI Topicbox-Message-UUID: fb37292a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I must admit that, in general, physicist, astrophysicists and > astronomers are very bad programmers. I've worked with all those > breeds and we really suck. referring to we, I take it you are one of them. > Maybe the fact that I've read, and solved > almost all the exercises from "the practice of programming" > and K&R's "the c programming language" will make you feel better. > Currently I'm going through Aho et al. "the awk programming language", > and then I'm planning to move to "The Unix Programming Environment". from this I realize that you are well on your way, and I stand duly chastised... In other words I think I have finally met one. Thank you sir, may I have another! ;-) > Coming back to the subject, I'll start with your recommendations and > Andrew's. Probably this is just a newbie talking, but it seemed to me > a kind of problem easily solved with file servers and 9p; but again, > this was only my first impression. Some of the people here are the authorities on those subjects, and wish you the best in your endeavors. Best regards, EBo --