From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <045701c10997$4a2b7c00$c0b7c6d4@SOMA> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <200107102257.XAA00499@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: [9fans] sam vs acme MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:23:13 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c4f05fb4-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From: "Steve Kilbane" > All true; the RPC interface library is a nightmare to use, compared > with the ease of just echoing into appropriate files. However, that's > a given anyway. yes, i've used a bunch of RPC. the DCE/RPC has to be _the worst_. the NFS kernel directory XDR is pretty 'special'. it's this complex system thinking stuff: we build complex things because _we can_ much like the story about the tests between the sidewinder and the falcon air-to-air missile tests [iirc the falcon turned into the phoenix aim-54]. the falcon people had an aircraft hanger full of the stuff. when asked what sort of test equipment they required the sidewinder people replied: oh, a screwdriver and a flashlight _sidewinder_ is a great book. it may be military, but it talks about _design_.