You have no heart, programmers have families to feed! This will keep hundreds of programmers employed for years to come.
uriel P.S.: And be careful, you might offend the Apple and Sun fanboys in the audience. On 5/21/07, Geoffrey Avila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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. >
