Good evening. Am Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:39:43 -0700 schrieb "Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Do you use Plan 9 for your general-purpose, everyday, recreational > computing environment? Yes. > I have neither the morale nor the power to write even a single line of > code for this new "integrated graphical desktop environment" on Plan 9 > -- I merely intend to assemble the work that others are doing; I'm like > a child clumsily playing with lego bricks. The best that I can do is > help write the gluework to get it working together nicely. So why are you discussing this, when you are not going to write any source code? > _Were_ there a choice between running a > general-purpose/consumer-oriented Plan 9 "distribution" of sorts, and > running yet another linux distro - I would opt for the Plan 9 > "distro" ( or whatever it would be called ); this hypothetical > operating system would of course only be interesting so long as it were > designed complementary to the very cool underlying Plan 9 concepts. That is only a propaganda position and not a technical one. Propaganda is boring. > You give the impression that the only way of writing 9p fileservers and > consumer-oriented applications on Plan 9 is with pure C, and that this > will always be the only way, and that it should always be the only > way. No, I said, that we use file servers in Plan 9, that speak 9P or the appropriate syscalls. C is just good taste, but you can still do the same in whatever language you like. > You also make it sound as though higher-level libraries and/or > object-oriented programming on Plan 9 are a complete waste in all > circumstances. Yes they are, but that is only a question of taste. > I honestly don't understand, but I'm also very ignorant - which is why > I was hoping for friendly explanations on how and why my assumptions > don't meet the reality. I think the primary rift is that the idea of a > general-purpose, user-grade version of Plan 9 is distastefull and/or > useless. First define "general-purpose", "user-grade", "distastefull" and "useless". > Anyhow, I'm probably just becoming line-noise at this point. (c8= Yes. Sincerely, Christoph
