And it will continue to regress until one knowledgeable and independent
human being serves as final arbiter of standards.
i think some of it eventually will be formalised, much as we do with programming
languages (even Javascript, which i mentioned, at least has a plausible
grammar),
but it
erik quanstrom wrote:
Charles Forsyth wrote:
computing is needlessly regressing.
And it will continue to regress until one knowledgeable and independent
human being serves as final arbiter of standards.
good idea. why don't you ask ken?
having looked again at ip/tcp.c i think the code wasn't really intending
to resolve one of the stalled receiver cases i had in mind, although it happens
to do so,
so changing it probably doesn't mess up some original intent.
mind you, one lesson i take from all this is that in retrospect one
