If you phrased this slightly more gently, people may in fact agree
with you.
They'd be agreeing with the wrong formulation, then.
But Plan 9 is a great environment to experiment in.
Sure. So is every nascent or vestigial system.
Anyhow, the thread's originator says he's interested in computer systems in
a very autotelic way. So, applications don't matter a lot; he's going to
dine on the contents of the Petri dish no matter what :-D
--On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 3:52 PM +0200 lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:
but I
don't think you can get much from it by way of productivity, unless you
intend to get productive in software engineering and/or computer science.
If you phrased this slightly more gently, people may in fact agree
with you. Although I find my workstation quite a useful mail agent,
perhaps for all the wrong reasons (the best way to describe it:
acme/Mail is *fast*!).
But Plan 9 is a great environment to experiment in. Perhaps you ought
to look upon it as the Petri dish for information technology: concepts
grow a great deal faster in Plan 9 than they do elsewhere, for all the
_right_ reasons.
++L
