Re: [9fans] Capitalization in man pages.

[Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>]

On Dec 6, 2005, at 12:11 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote:

> i'm anyway currently stuck in a grim world of
> public abstract SocketChannel extends  
> java.nio.channels.spi.AbstractSelectableChannel
> implements ByteChannel, GatheringByteChannel, ScatteringByteChannel
> where clearly no names are used lightly; and there are many.


I'd say "run away!", but I'm sure there's a reason to the insanity of  
all the Java class hierarchies.  That said, I'm still all for  
following the mantra: deleted code is debugged code.  And there are  
is a lot of source code in the above space that deserves to be  
debugged through deletion.

Though JStyx opens up the concepts from Plan 9 and Inferno into the  
Java space, there's still a lot left to be desired.  So much so that  
from the seat I'm sitting in, it's really difficult justifying going  
down that road when using Inferno or plan9port would at least keep  
some of the architecture a little more sane.

Granted, it would be nice to see Inferno piggy back on the JDBC layer  
since ODBC has even more constraints these days (hard to believe).   
But I'd still like to see a new Inferno release and documentation,  
properly capitalized of course, before more Java classes I'll never  
get the opportunity to use see the light of day.

jas