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Subject: Re: [9fans] sam vs acme
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   of "Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:23:13 +0200." <045701c10997$4a2b7c00$c0b7c6d4@SOMA>
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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 07:55:01 +0100
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I wrote:

[ stuff saying wily's message interface isn't as easy to use as Plan 9's
writing to files ]

and Boyd wrote:

[ stuff about sidewinder missiles ]

I'm amazed. I really am.

But to respond to a specific point:

> we build complex things because _we can_

I don't think that's quite true. wily's RPC isn't nearly as nice to use
as Plan 9's writing to files, but I presume that Plan 9's library for
driving 9P isn't as nice to use as writing to the files
either; if it was, that'd be the functionality you'd see from the shell.

Wily's RPC isn't the nightmare that XDR was, for example, but then, it
was to solve a much simpler problem. I think part of the reason why we build
complex things is because we're trying to anticipate problems that are
incorrectly viewed through foresight.

steve