Re: [9fans] gcc on plan9

think you're right.

i am a charter member of the "shoot, ready, aim" school of email reading.

☺ erik

On Thu Jun 8 10:03:29 CDT 2006, leimy2k@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 6/7/06, quanstro@xxxxxxxxxxxx <quanstro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed Jun 7 20:08:54 CDT 2006, lionkov@xxxxxxxx wrote:
We have to choose between having clean system that is used by handful
of people, or slightly dirtier one (but still better than Linux for
example) that can attract more users.

I don't think the Plan9 community has the resources (both in numbers
and quality) to continue the development. We need fresh blood.

thanks for insulting everyone here. i simply don't agree that the quality
of programmers working on plan 9 is lacking. from what i've seen it's top
shelf.

- erik

I think you may have zoomed in on the wrong interpretation of his
parenthesis. I took it as "there are good programmers in terms of
quality in the plan 9 community, but not enough."

Dave
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