From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10 <at> mac.com>
Subject: Re: Using the Acme Editor
Newsgroups: gmane.os.plan9.general
Date: 2008-08-19 22:25:45 GMT (1 year, 2 weeks, 1 day, 8 hours and 12 minutes ago)
On Aug 19, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Eris Discordia wrote:

> That's the gist of responses you've received before this one. I've  
> gone through these 9ish episodes twice. Plan 9 and the related  
> software just isn't for someone who wants to Get Their Job Done  
> (tm). It's a "research" platform for those who want to "tell" other  
> people what they should do and how they should do it and why any  
> other way would be "sacrilege." No wonder it has remained as  
> minuscule and insignificant--9people tell you it's "nimble," don't  
> believe them--as it is after like 24 years of "development."

Wrong on so many levels. Plan 9 lets you Get The Job Done(TM), but in  
a completely different way from *your* approach. Plan 9 obeys the UNIX  
way: tools that make jobs simpler. This is augmented by 33 libraries  
that provide common utilities in a transparent way. "Everything is a  
UTF-8 text file or a mountable filesystem, even devices and severs"  
encourages transparency of modules: you can copy a file from a Gopher  
network to a mobile phone or without running a million commands. If  
you are not like that, leave.