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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] java
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:44:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23993bbca4e63461cf9d86a151a18c9f@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <033d01c2ff75$68107240$644cb2cc@kds>

>>This is the VERY BAD part. Java virtualizes a POSIX
>>"computer" with "socket" networking. Why would one
>>want this anywhere near Plan 9? I thought of ripping
>>that stuff out and replacing it with the Plan 9 equivalents,
>>but then it would not be "Pure Java" and would be unusable.

quite.  it's also interesting how many people think networking is hard
because of all that socket stuff; mimics of the OSI model; and of course W3C.
there are sadly plenty of examples of `filling a much-needed gap'!


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-11  5:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-10  5:19 peter a. cejchan
2003-04-10 14:58 ` ron minnich
2003-04-10 15:24   ` David Butler
2003-04-11  5:44     ` C H Forsyth [this message]
2003-04-11  1:16 okamoto
2003-04-11  8:12 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-04-11  9:04 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-04-11  9:08   ` will551
2003-04-16 12:55 peter a. cejchan
2004-03-02  0:59 [9fans] Java matt
2004-03-02 13:46 ` Michael Jeffrey
2006-02-07 20:21 [9fans] java bituman
2006-02-07 20:36 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-07 20:42 ` uriel
2006-02-07 20:48 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-07 20:56   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-01-16 23:54 [9fans] Java Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-17  0:19 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-01-17  1:04   ` Yaroslav
2008-01-17  1:58     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-17  2:00       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-17  2:05       ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-17  3:48         ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-01-17  4:19           ` Bruce Ellis
2008-01-17  8:29             ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-17  9:03               ` Bruce Ellis
2008-01-17  8:34         ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-17  8:32           ` Robert William Fuller
2008-01-17 17:48 ` Latchesar Ionkov

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