Ken Thompson should work on Linux

For those who dont know the unix OS was started by Ken Thompson who was originally trying to make a video game on an unused computer at AT&T. It then grew into an OS as a file system was added and other components. Ken is now working at Google, and Google uses the Linux OS for Android. So wouldnt it be a good idea to let the father of Linux work on its most successful offspring? Im sure that Google can lend Ken for a month or so to work on Linux for the betterment of computing.

>>39
Plan 9 tries to make things "better" by completely ignoring all existing technologies, and instead fucking reinvent everything.
Still being UNIX-y.

We NEED a Lisp OS, or something similiar for non-Lisp speaking people.

>>41
or something similiar for non-Lisp speaking people.
Like a JAVA OS?

>>40
You got mad!

>>42
As long it has what Lisp machines had, it could even be a PHP OS.

>>43
No, just disappointed.

>>44
Blasphemous wretch!

>>44
what exactly are you looking for?

>>41
We NEED a Lisp OS, or something similiar for non-Lisp speaking people.

Replace init by Emacs and there you go.

>>48
oh dear god

>>48
already been done
look up "Lisp Machines"

>>39
>implying plan 9 doesn't support http, ftp, nfs, smb, cifs, png, jpeg, pdf, mpeg, ip, tcp, udp, tftp, dns, utf, irc, sha1, md5, aes, des, rsa, &c.
Yep, Plan 9 started over from scratch, beginning with stone tools and building up from there to a complete computer operating system.

>>41
take a look at oberon

>>48
http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux.html

>>53
This confirms that Emacs is a pretty good OS, it just lacks a kernel (not a ``good editor'', it has ed-mode)

>>51
You just listed a bunch of more or less simple protocols and file types, standardized hashing algorithms and a programming language, which all existed for an arguably long time. Besides that, neither C, nor http, ftp, cifs, smb, png, jpeg, pdf, mpeg, IPs, tcp, udp, tftp, dns, utf, irc, etc, are supermodern, or anything to envy. Especially not HTTP, FTP and C.

But i'm talking about stuff that got ``invented'' recently. If you don't know what i'm talking about, you probably should refrain from posting in this thread.

>>53
Thanks for the link, that's exactly what I was referring to.

>>55
Why would Plan 9 have stuff that was invented recently? Plan 9 is a 20-year-old operating system

>If you don't know what i'm talking about, you probably should refrain from posting in this thread.
If I don't know what you're talking about, you probably haven't explained your point very well. In fact, you haven't at all.