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Makes me wonder what the quality of the architecture is on your projects is though. Not that I think coding style is unimportant, but it's all too easy to crit
by dasil003 13y ago
Makes me wonder what the quality of the architecture is on your projects is though. Not that I think coding style is unimportant, but it's all too easy to criticize yesteryear's code with today's style standards and totally miss the forest for the trees. Are you doing work that measures up to the ambition of Plan 9?
- pjmlp 13y agoWe all know how well that ambition turned out.
- myg204 13y agoYes, (1) commercially it went nowhere, (2) technically it's a complete working os with original ideas implemented in a masterful way. Not bad I think!
- pjmlp 13y agoI can say the same for many other OSs, like BeOS or Native Oberon, just to name two of them, but in the end it is (1) that counts. It is like football, it does not matter how brilliant a team plays, but which one has higher score when the referee signals the end of the game.
- myg204 13y agoIMHO, (1) is the not only think that counts in the end. A 'failed' (as in (1)) concept may have a second life in future works. Also, in the case of plan9 some ideas did get traction (UTF-8 for example), some didn't so it's not all bad. Comparisons are tricky, you can compare an OS to a football team, and then yes maybe what you say is right. Or you can compare it to a work of art, then what matters is the influence the works has in shaping the future...
- pjmlp 13y agoYeah, maybe I was a bit too harsh. It is just that I personally never found Plan9 that interesting, except for its successor Inferno and Limbo. For me operating systems that explore designs done with regards to micro architectures or safe systems programming languages are much more interesting. So for me Plan9 tends to be just another OS. And yes I have used it.
- dasil003 13y agoYou know what never fails though? The middlebrow dismissal!