From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tom Duff" Message-Id: <10009221018.ZM25618@marvin> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:18:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: Steve Kilbane "Re: [9fans] Client/server program sample code request.." (Sep 22, 7:40am) References: <200009220640.HAA02562@whitecrow.demon.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Client/server program sample code request.. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0b7b61e6-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sep 22, 7:40am, Steve Kilbane wrote: > Boyd wrote: > > dial() is just _so_ much better than that ghastly bezerkley socket > > interface. > > It is, true. I do wonder, though, how much of the mess vs. cleanliness > difference came about because much of the common uses of networks had > settled down a lot by the time Plan 9 first came into existence. > I.e, were the BSD lot trying to solve predicted problems that came to > be irrelevant to 99.99% of people writing network code? There was some talk about this when wnj was designing the BSD socket code, and I think it's fair to say that he had his mind made up, and did pretty much what he wanted. -- Tom Duff. I'm not running for anything, so I can answer honestly.