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.
