From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] mv vs cp Message-ID: <20011008102844.A28720@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <12557.1002525027@apnic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <12557.1002525027@apnic.net>; from George Michaelson on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:10:27PM +1000 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 10:28:46 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 012e4ca2-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:10:27PM +1000, George Michaelson wrote: > > Pointing out M$ has .LNK isn't going to help my cause much is it :-) > Well, and a registry. In Plan 9's idiom, they could do with a few more iterations. One valid point is that computers are able to mimic real life more closely, but I'm of the school that was trained on deterministic behaviour. Non-deterministic bahaviour is a curse and a sufficiently vast computer system is non-deterministic. Dijkstra had trouble with interrupts, but I believe they could be assimilated into a deterministic framework, modern bloat is orders of magnitude too complex for such treatment. There's a strange commercial strength in non-determinism, basically getting the luser to accept failure as if it were essential. I suppose that was the M$ genius: don't let the user expect perfection in anything but the _next_ generation of software. ++L