From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: [9front] [PATCH] dougfacts: purple rain, side two, track one - when dougs cry
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 14:15:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YQmx5v6lBDTXhQp6@alice> (raw)
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
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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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