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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] i'm afraid we've had it wrong
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:12:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <045296d6974340cd430fef473e61facb@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2eea45de-bf51-43cd-86c1-9e3c84156b17@gmail.com>

On Sun Sep 29 23:00:29 EDT 2013, asbrasbra@gmail.com wrote:
> However stating that "just works" equals "don't rework it" is very Microsofty, tho'

also debatable wrt sockets.  in 1992, it was not possible with sockets to
add an address family without changing all the user programs that intended
to use it.  calling that "it just works" may be a stretch.  part of the reason
one still sees line items that say "works with ip6".

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-30 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-29 16:55 andrey mirtchovski
2013-09-29 17:00 ` Jacob Todd
2013-09-29 17:39   ` Rob Pike
2013-09-29 18:56     ` dexen deVries
2013-09-29 19:30     ` Kurt H Maier
2013-10-04  9:13     ` Gabriel Diaz
2013-09-29 20:34 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-09-30  2:45   ` [9fans] " Teodoro Santoni
2013-09-30  3:00     ` [9fans] " Matthew Veety
2013-09-30  2:55 ` [9fans] " Teodoro Santoni
2013-09-30  2:59 ` Teodoro Santoni
2013-09-30  3:43   ` [9fans] " Brantley Coile
2013-09-30  6:32     ` Devon H. O'Dell
2013-09-30 13:12   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-09-30 13:51     ` Jonathan Cast
2013-10-01  1:03     ` Charles Forsyth

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