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.