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Subject: Re: [9fans] Van Jacobsen's network stack restructure
Date: Thu,  2 Feb 2006 09:24:12 +0100
From: uriel@cat-v.org
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> David Leimbach wrote:
> 
>> The bash shell supports /dev/tcp.... kind of evil but you can make
>> connections and send strings via file redirection with it.
> 
> 
> so, on the 'how broken is that' scale, where does this one go?
> 
> the scale, btw, goes from 1 to 11
Around 16.  

Gawk also has this "feature", wont be long before someone adds
it to cat(1)... 

"do one thing, and do it well" has become
"do everything, everywhere, poorly"

I have been wondering lately why don't the FSF replace the whole Hurd
with bash, it even has emacs(nee libreadline) built in!

All features built into a single program, and then use some sort of
virtualization to provide isolation...  and the software industry has
gone full circle once more.

Some times I wonder if any progress is possible, or for every step forward
we take, we will grow an extra leg that takes us back to square zero.

uriel