From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <23993bbca4e63461cf9d86a151a18c9f@vitanuova.com> From: C H Forsyth To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] java In-Reply-To: <033d01c2ff75$68107240$644cb2cc@kds> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 06:44:45 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8e9f86d6-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>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'!