Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-12-05 Thread Lucio De Re
On 12/4/20, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > "discipline" is a good keyword. > it's not about the language IMO.\ > [ ... ] I watched Uncle Tom, whoever he may be, dissing practically every language under the sun with very little substance to what he was presenting. Didn't convince me that he really

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-12-04 Thread hiro
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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-12-04 Thread Lucio De Re
On 12/3/20, Bakul Shah wrote: > > Finally, I very much doubt he would have liked C! > I had an electrical engineering friend, back at university, who used array subscripts in C because he couldn't get his head around pointers. Like me, his migration was from Pascal to C. I would prefer a Modula-2

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-12-03 Thread Bakul Shah
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Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-17 Thread ori
Quoth Skip Tavakkolian : > Hi, > > FYI, for those of you who are on twitter, I've set up the twitter handle > @Plan9_OS to push news and announcements to the community. Please > consider following it; and if you tweet about Plan 9 or related topics, > please try to include this handle in your an

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-13 Thread Pouya Tafti
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020, at 20:05, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > It is in addition to existing channels, including 9fans list. > > BTW, there are two groups on LinkedIn (both named "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"). > One is managed by John Floren and the other by Sergey, Charles and myself. It > probably has t

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-13 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> > > > BTW, there are two groups on LinkedIn (both named "Plan 9 from Bell > Labs"). One is managed by John Floren and the other by Sergey, Charles and > myself. It probably has the least traffic. (also, perhaps we should combine > them?) > The second LinkedIn group I mentioned also includes nemo

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-13 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
It is in addition to existing channels, including 9fans list. BTW, there are two groups on LinkedIn (both named "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"). One is managed by John Floren and the other by Sergey, Charles and myself. It probably has the least traffic. (also, perhaps we should combine them?) -Skip O

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-13 Thread Kim Shrier
> On Nov 12, 2020, at 2:36 PM, Skip Tavakkolian > wrote: > > Hi, > > FYI, for those of you who are on twitter, I've set up the twitter handle > @Plan9_OS to push news and announcements to the community. Please consider > following it; and if you tweet about Plan 9 or related topics, please

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-12 Thread sirjofri+ml-9fans
Hey, I didn't get the initial mail in this thread in my sirjofri.de mailbox. Only in my gmail box... I am on twitter, but not actively at the moment. I'll follow it, but don't expect too much from me. You can retweet my plan9 related posts if you want, maybe this brings some attention after

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-12 Thread Calvin Morrison
It's ok, plan9 will get disputed by twitter fact checkers before a twitter presence is established. On Thu, Nov 12, 2020, at 10:55 PM, Don A. Bailey wrote: > You know Trump has email, right? ;-) > > D > > > On Nov 12, 2020, at 8:51 PM, Lucio De Re wrote: > > > > On 11/12/20, Skip Tavakkoli

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-12 Thread Don A. Bailey
You know Trump has email, right? ;-) D > On Nov 12, 2020, at 8:51 PM, Lucio De Re wrote: > > On 11/12/20, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> Hi, >> >> FYI, for those of you who are on twitter, I've set up the twitter handle >> @Plan9_OS to push news and announcements to the community. Please >> c

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-12 Thread Lucio De Re
On 11/12/20, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > Hi, > > FYI, for those of you who are on twitter, I've set up the twitter handle > @Plan9_OS to push news and announcements to the community. Please > consider following it; and if you tweet about Plan 9 or related topics, > please try to include this handl

[9fans] Plan 9 announcements on twitter

2020-11-12 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Hi, FYI, for those of you who are on twitter, I've set up the twitter handle @Plan9_OS to push news and announcements to the community. Please consider following it; and if you tweet about Plan 9 or related topics, please try to include this handle in your announcements. Thanks, -Skip