From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] dougfacts: purple rain, side two, track one - when dougs cry
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 00:07:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XNj+yumqcXNAiew_KK+SzVDjKGjrCekgfZf6UBzunDs6w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YQmx5v6lBDTXhQp6@alice>
hahahahahaha
On 8/3/21, Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org> wrote:
>
> From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
> To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 19:12:48 +0000
> Subject: [TUHS] Systematic approach to command-line interfaces
>
>> Go gets us part of the way there, but cross-machine messaging is still a
>> mess.
>
> Shed a tear for Plan 9 (Pike yet again). While many of its secondary
> innovations have been stuffed into Linux; its animating
> principle--transparently distributable computing--could not overcome
> the enormous inertia of installed BSD-model systems.
>
> Doug
>
> ---
> diff db251868f681b2d40965f75275cf1613a95b9369
> 319d45c02284d10bda0a9af23de7c5aaa4f0ad6f
> --- a/lib/dougfacts Wed Jul 28 18:08:47 2021
> +++ b/lib/dougfacts Tue Aug 3 13:59:22 2021
> @@ -27,3 +27,4 @@
> Doug McIlroy understands the internals of a hidden Markov model.
> Doug McIlroy patented macros.
> At Bell Labs, computers regularly crashed in fear when Doug McIlroy entered
> the room.
> +Doug McIlroy has only cried once -- upon the death of Plan 9.
>
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