Re: [9fans] NIX this morning

2025-04-01 Thread Dave Lukes via 9fans
This is definitely off-topic and relatively long, for which I apologise in advance, but since it might be useful and I can speak about it from experience, I will ... I highly recommend retirement, most of all because it frees your mind; it also frees your time, but that will get eaten up by th

Re: [9fans] NIX this morning

2025-03-26 Thread Dave Lukes via 9fans
ou sure? > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boofhead > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM Dave Lukes via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 26 Mar 2025 00:02, Ron Minnich wrote: >> >> etymology of boofhead: I don't know, picked it

Re: [9fans] NIX this morning

2025-03-25 Thread Dave Lukes via 9fans
On 26 Mar 2025 00:02, Ron Minnich wrote: etymology of boofhead: I don't know, picked it up from ericvh, who picked it up at Murray Hill.The correct spelling is "bofhead": it's a Boyd-ism.Dave. 9fans / 9fans / see discussions + participants + delivery options Permalink

Re: [9fans] Jim McKie

2020-06-25 Thread Dave Lukes via 9fans
Damn. Condolences to his nearest & dearest. My favourite jmk-ism was when he described C++ as "the flavour of the weak" within a certain organisation. Another random memory: he re-used the V6 kernel initialisation code as clist blocks for the tty driver to eke out the limited kernel address s

Re: [9fans] APL for Plan 9?

2018-09-06 Thread Dave Lukes
I know nothing of any pure APL for p9 or related systems, but theres A+: http://www.aplusdev.org/ which is GPLed, so could, theoretically, be ported. On Sep 06, 2018, at 02:43 PM, Ethan Gardener wrote: Is there an implementation of APL or a related language for Plan 9? -- The lyf so short,