On a related note:
Somebody at Sun decided that the thing Unix needed most of all was a way
to programmatically manipulate "init" via XML. What's worse is that a
completely independent team at Apple committed a starkly similar atrocity
at almost the same time.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/selfheal/smf-quickstart.html
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html
Could someone explain this to me? Why would you do this? How could this
possibly be a net improvement?
-GBA
<9p><request>T</request><requesttype>R</requesttype><fid><number><digit><binary>1</binary><binary>0>/binary>...
well, you get my drift.
Shouldn't we move 9p to a standards-based, compliant, XML-based system
with first-class enumerated elements in which all pluggable components
are Python objects and hence first-class citizens and add a full
compiler to enable translation and XML co-processor acceleration?
Can I randomly permute the words in the previous sentence? Yes.
Is that sentence like stuff I read nowadays? Yes.
Is constant gnashing wearing off the enamel on my teeth? Yes, oh yes.
