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MmmMmmPosted Dec 17, 2012 11:33 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)In reply to: Mmm by renox Parent article: Haiku edges toward general release
> Bleah, this page is a mess, the perfect example of a wiki gone wrong.
The argument here is: Plan9 is NOT a refactoring of Unix because, in the words of Martin Fowler, "Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure."
The original phrase from bronson was: "It was a rewrite suffering serious second system syndrome." (referring, obviously, to Plan9). Going by stages:
IMHO Plan9 is quite elegant itself (but I *do* think Limbo is a monstrosity /per se/), and I agree with you that it did not lose momentum because of featuritis or other stuff, but because it stayed close where other unixen opened up.
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Mmm Posted Dec 17, 2012 12:58 UTC (Mon) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]
> but I *do* think Limbo is a monstrosity /per se/
Uh why? I like it very much.
Mmm Posted Dec 17, 2012 14:51 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
> Uh why? I like it very much.
And I respect your opinion and you are certainly entitled to it.
> I'm not alone as Go has some success and it is very similar to Limbo..
Don't even get me started on Go... (hint: WHY OH $DEITY WHY) :-D
Seriously, both languages are "C on steroids". Full of shorthands, but none of the shorthands *I* would use. IOW, poorly-Huffmann-encoded for me. YMMV.
Mmm Posted Dec 17, 2012 18:05 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
My "second system" statement was clumsy... I meant it in the "attempt all the things you did not get to do last time" sense. I forgot about the "neutron star of features" definition.
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