On Sun May 8 02:01:57 EDT 2011, rminn...@gmail.com wrote:
The type signature reveals all: ainc returns a long, and xinc is void.
You really can't test the value of the long * after you call xinc
because somebody else might have done an xinc after your xinc but
before you test the value.
Hi, I've have some curiosity about a few things for a while. The thread
about the web and Plan 9 got me rethinking… It's often touted that Plan 9
is a research OS, and I believe that, and I understand some of the
implications of that (could swear I went to a NYC USENIX(?) meeting at the
foot of
Coraid uses plan 9 in a few places; I think firmware that ships with their
hardware is a stripped down plan 9. I know there's other companies that use
plan 9, but I'm drawing a blank on them right now.
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:54:28AM +, Greg Comeau wrote:
Some more food for thought:
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
definition, not smart enough to debug it. --Brian Kernighan
In Brian Kernighan's sentence, s/cleverly/sophisticatedly/ (this is
probably a barbarism, but in french sophistiqué is pejorative:
obfuscation, convoluted etc.).
Sorry, but it's not. it just means complex, and is not usually
employed to make any value judgment.
Just look it up in any
On Sun May 8 11:58:29 EDT 2011, jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote:
Coraid uses plan 9 in a few places; I think firmware that ships with their
hardware is a stripped down plan 9. I know there's other companies that use
plan 9, but I'm drawing a blank on them right now.
if you want to participate in
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 2:27 PM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:54:28AM +, Greg Comeau wrote:
Some more food for thought:
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:27:53PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
(this is
probably a barbarism, but in french sophistiqué is pejorative:
obfuscation, convoluted etc.).
In Italian in 1969, sofisticato meant adulterated. I'm not sure if
that is still the case. I think I see what you
