Berlioz recounts his first sighting of orchestral velum.
"oh what wonderful music can be written on this ..." I had a similar reaction when I first sat in front of a blit, and rob couldn't drag me away from it. 23 years later I still embrace the simplicity. A UI that isn't in your face. I'd bannish the ctrl-key but sometimes you wanta reboot. brucee On 11/15/06, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/14/06, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/14/06, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > who said we have to be like the rest of the world. i thought the > > point of plan 9 was to be different. the rest of the world uses sockets > > and nfs, too. ;-) > > ;-) taken :-) > > we have to be, not just different, but better. Some aspects of Plan 9 > strike me as different for difference's sake. I don't see a point to > it. I didn't immediately either. However I've been organizing my data in hierarchies thanks to the Unix filesystem for a long long time now, people are starting to realize that searching for data based on metadata and getting fuzzy results is sometimes better when you have 92 Terrabytes of data in your iMac. Ok, that's an exaggeration, but you get my point I'd hope. I think a lot of the way editors were written in the 80s was due to the fact that people probably didn't really "get" the mouse the way I think it was intended to be uhm... gotten. If you look back at the englebart demos, I see a lot of things that make me think more of Acme than emacs or vi. I also kind of want a chording keyboard on my left now as a result. The necessary momentum to make people change their minds on some things can be really difficult to achieve, and sometimes the effort to learn something better does distract from the focus of getting work done. In effect better becomes the enemy of good enough (Voltaire?) So that's why people still use Fortran on giant MPI clusters :-). And why Lisp will never take over the world, and why Acme will always be subject to patches to make cursors move with arrow keys. I think it's just human nature.
