From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tlaronde@polynum.com Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:49:25 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] RPC-esque system calls? Message-ID: <20070724134925.GA1191@polynum.com> References: <46a5d276$0$36452$4fafbaef@reader5.news.tin.it> <5d375e920707240624x1da18a4ei41c14e7ab688724b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5d375e920707240624x1da18a4ei41c14e7ab688724b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9661fa5a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 03:24:57PM +0200, Uriel wrote: > >I'd encapsulate messages into SOAP (XML) envelopes. > > We are in April already? Wow, how fast the years go by, must be the > speed of progress in the software industry. That's the problem with jokes---I mean XML. tar_and_feather was too long. Vaseline was considered politically incorrect. So they ended with: SOAP, which, unfortunately, is so weak that it has been taken seriously. -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C