Wrong on so many levels.
Go read the responses 9people gave the original poster. You'll see why
it's _right_ on so many levels.
Plan 9 obeys the UNIX way: tools that make jobs simpler.
A UNIX better than UNIX? I thought that was just the thing 9people
claimed to be past. Didn't I hear someone saying, "Plan 9 is not UNIX?"
Ahem... GNU's Not UNIX, too, nah?
"Everything is a UTF-8 [...]"
Do me a favor. Fire up your beloved upas, use mail, and relay one email
through upas/smtpd to smtp.gmail.com:587 with the words "שָׁלוֹם
עֲלֵיכֶם" (Hebrew, Shalom aleichem) or "سلام علیکم"
(Arabic, Salam-on alaikom) to my address. Let's see if "the mail goes
through."
"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.
The path from Gopher to your PC--or it was a Mac that you had?--was paved
years ago on UNIX. Then the path from Tokyo to Mexico was built on UNIX,
and today it _runs_ on UNIX. Now, the real problem begins when you want
to get your cell phone to talk 9P-over-IP.
Do you have a 9P client for your cell phone? You "wrote" it already?
Does it run on Java? Or Symbian? Or Vendor X's proprietary embedded OS?
Did you do it on Plan 9? Or did you snatch an SDK written for some other
livelier OS?
Go fool someone else with your empty rhetoric, buddy.
If you are not like that, leave.
No, I _am_ not like that. I also _don't_ like that. And I've left. The
post was not for you to chew on, it was for the benefit of the thread's
originator.
