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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What should go in standards
Message-ID: <7230@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 9 Feb 88 15:36:39 GMT
References: <11558@brl-adm.ARPA> <262@csed-47.csed-1.UUCP> <19658@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <263@csed-47.csed-1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <263@csed-47.csed-1.UUCP> roskos@csed-1.UUCP (Eric Roskos) writes:
-I agree with you that windowing is essential; but I don't think it's time
-to standardize it yet.

Hear, hear!

-It's easy to design a system that does everything anybody wants, although
-getting it to work may be a problem, and keeping it working an even bigger
-problem; but it's hard to design a system that does useful things well, and
-succeeds in providing something better than what people first wanted, the
-sort of thing they end up wanting in the end, but without carrying along all
-the intermediate features indefinitely in the process.

I wish we heard more like this in the so-called "Unix wizards" newsgroup.

Anyone want to comment on how Plan 9 is coming along, or is it too early?