>while a descriptive history is good, it takes a lot of extra work
>to generate.
i've rarely found per-change histories to be any more useful than most other
comments, i'm afraid.
you'd hope it would answer "what was he thinking?" but i found either it was
obvious or i still had to ask.
still, p
Hi,
I am reading the lib9p/ramfs.c file and I can't understand this (in threadmain):
+ Qid q;
+ ...
+ q = fs.tree->root->dir.qid;
Because *q* is not longer used.
Why *q* is defined and assigned?
Thanks
Saludos, kix.
>the advantage of dump and snap is that the scope is the whole system:
>including emails, discussion documents,
>the code, supporting tools -- everything in digital form. if software works
>differently today
>compared to yesterday, then
sorry, got cut off. then in most cases, i'd expect 9fs
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 01:27:49PM +, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> perhaps literate programming will fix that if it ever takes off.
I use CWEB (D. Knuth and Levy's) intensively and it is indeed
invaluable.
It doesn't magically improve code (my first attempts have just shown
how poor my programming
> I use CWEB (D. Knuth and Levy's) intensively and it is indeed
> invaluable.
> It doesn't magically improve code (my first attempts have just shown
> how poor my programming was: it's a magnifying glass, and one just saw
> with it bug's blinking eyes with bright smiles).
Back when I used CWEB o
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:25:33AM -0600, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> Back when I used CWEB on a regular basis (I don't find myself
> writing as much substantive code from scratch of late), I
> experienced an interesting phenomenon. I could write
> pretty good code, almost as a stream of co
>> Back when I used CWEB on a regular basis (I don't find myself
>> writing as much substantive code from scratch of late), I
is it just me, or is hard to read someone else's cweb code?
if it's not just me...
i wonder if the same reason it's easy to write from the top
down doesn't make it hard to
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 01:20:17PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
> appropriately, this being a plan 9 list and all, i find code
> written from the bottom up easier to read.
>
Depending on the task (on the aim of the software), one happens to split
from top to bottom, and to review and amend from b
How come the Renée French who appears in Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and
Cigarettes" has nothing to with the Renée French who drew Glenda? How
probable is for two people of artistic inclination to have the exact same
name? Or is Glenda's creator hiding her identity as part of Plan 9 for
World Domina
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 01:20:17PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> appropriately, this being a plan 9 list and all, i find code
>> written from the bottom up easier to read.
>
> Depending on the task (on the aim of the software), one happens to split
> from top to bottom, and to review and amend
The Story of Mel
[...]
I compared Mel's hand-optimized programs with the same code massaged by
the optimizing assembler program, and Mel's always ran faster. That was
because the "top-down" method of program design hadn't been invented
yet, and Mel wouldn't have used it anyway. He wrote the inne
> Know why Mel is no more in business? 'Cause one man can only do so much
> work. The Empire State took many men to build, so did Khufu's pyramid, and
> there was no whining about "many mechanisms that don't work well together."
> Now go call your managers "PHBs."
building a pyramid, starting a
> building a pyramid, starting at the top is one of those things
> that just doesn't scale.
But if you figure out how, it's probably worth a Nobel.
BLS
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Eris Discordia
wrote:
> How come the Renée French who appears in Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and
> Cigarettes" has nothing to with the Renée French who drew Glenda?
Interesting movie. Parts of it I dearly love, other parts not so
much. A lot like Night on Earth, whe
I can't think of a single scene in Night on Earth that displays
anything less than pure artistic genius.
Rome is pure comic gold; and Paris, while more subtle, is not far
behind. But of them all, New York will always have my heart.
uriel
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Jack Johnson wrote:
> O
building a pyramid, starting at the top is one of those things
that just doesn't scale.
For that, you have "bottom-up," right? But there's no "meet-in-the-middle"
for a pyramid, or for software. Unless, the big picture is small enough to
fit in one man's head and let him "context-switch" back
On Dec 25, 2008, at 6:37 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
despite the season, and typical attitudes, i don't think that
development practices are a spiritual or moral decision.
they are a practical one.
Absolutely! Agreed 100%. My original question was not
at all aimed at "saving" Plan9 development
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