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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:21:40 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Client/server program sample code request..
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I think that, at least at the C interface level,
the sockets problem stems mainly from trying
to solve everything in C rather than with a 
(very) little language like the dial strings.
I'm not up on my history of which came first, 
but the dial strings were in Research Unix
too.

A more vivid example of this distinction is the 
difference in usability between an embedded
Tk for Limbo or C, which just provides a
function tkcmd(char*) to which you pass Tk
syntax, and a purely extant-language-based
solution like GTK+, in which all the elegant
Tk syntax is lost to clumsy C or C++ expressions
because someone was (probably unnecessarily)
worried about efficiency.

Russ