Sorry, I forgot to finish my comments:
Wrong on so many levels. Plan 9 lets you Get The Job Done(TM), but in
a completely different way from *your* approach. Plan 9 obeys the UNIX
way: tools that make jobs simpler. This is augmented by 33 libraries
that provide common utilities in a transparent way. "Everything is a
UTF-8 text file or a mountable filesystem, even devices and severs"
encourages transparency of modules: you can copy a file from a Gopher
network in Tokyo to a mobile phone from Mexico or have the filesystem
report how much free space is left without running a million commands
or typing a thousand lines of code. If you are not like that, leave.
On Aug 19, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
On Aug 19, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Eris Discordia wrote:
That's the gist of responses you've received before this one. I've
gone through these 9ish episodes twice. Plan 9 and the related
software just isn't for someone who wants to Get Their Job Done
(tm). It's a "research" platform for those who want to "tell" other
people what they should do and how they should do it and why any
other way would be "sacrilege." No wonder it has remained as
minuscule and insignificant--9people tell you it's "nimble," don't
believe them--as it is after like 24 years of "development."
Wrong on so many levels. Plan 9 lets you Get The Job Done(TM), but
in a completely different way from *your* approach. Plan 9 obeys the
UNIX way: tools that make jobs simpler. This is augmented by 33
libraries that provide common utilities in a transparent way.
"Everything is a UTF-8 text file or a mountable filesystem, even
devices and severs" encourages transparency of modules: you can copy
a file from a Gopher network to a mobile phone or without running a
million commands. If you are not like that, leave.
