On Jan 24, 2008, at 2:27 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
dr. wirth can not be accused of software bloat nor of poor
programming.
is work is excellent. the oberon system is so spartian there are
no directories.
that's just too spartain for me.
I can agree Wirth has improved his ways over the past 20 years, but I
never got Oberon installed. No directories has not been practiced
ever to my memory; the closest I can think of off the top of my head
is the first Macintosh only having directories in / and no
subdirectories.
you know, i don't feel like i need to get the world using plan 9.
it's enough to change myself.
- erik
The world doesn't need to use Plan 9 - I doubt there is advertising
anymore. But if someone else hears about Plan 9 and doesn't want to
use it because he doesn't find it familiar, he'll probably say the
same thing. I am perfectly comfortable with Plan 9 the way it is, and
I enjoy troff, but the rest of the world may think otherwise.
This discussion started with me trying to get GCC to work. Now it's
run off into about 3,000 different directions and I don't know much
anymore. I just want to mention that I also tried GCC to see if I
could build Ruby 1.9.0 with it.
