On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
PPS: Plan 9 anyone?
Anything but _THAT_! At some period of my life I was paid to make something resembling production system out of Plan 9... it has all the quality features of v6 Unix, and looks like some student's course project. There were some interesting ideas, but the coding style was totally atrocious. Like, fixed size tables everywhere (oh, you run out of 100 open files, toooo baaaad), little charmers like TCP ACKs being sent in 20ms timer call-backs (so it works awfully great over 100Mbps ethernet :), text-based interfaces requiring padding with spaces to some fixed-length strings, and a zillion other quick hacks. "You are in a maze or little twisting cross-mounts, all alike" :) To summarize original Unix design & coding style very very concisely: % ed s/a/b/ ? That "?" says all. As a matter of fact, 30 years later ed still says "?". --vadim