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From: Jonathan Cast <jonathanccast@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] i'm afraid we've had it wrong
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 06:51:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380549104.30448.28159209.49021791@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <045296d6974340cd430fef473e61facb@brasstown.quanstro.net>

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013, at 06:12 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:
> 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.

"[J]ust" in the since of "just barely" not in the sense of "simply" . .
.

> part of the
> reason
> one still sees line items that say "works with ip6".

--
  Jonathan Cast
  jonathanccast@fastmail.fm



  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-30 13:51 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
2013-09-30 13:51     ` Jonathan Cast [this message]
2013-10-01  1:03     ` Charles Forsyth

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