What should go in standards

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <263 at csed-47.csed-1.UUCP> roskos at 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?