From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <91a834f68df7b1af7de479b2062c27d7@terzarima.net> References: <91a834f68df7b1af7de479b2062c27d7@terzarima.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3EC2D812-70D7-4541-BFFA-3942323AC4E2@corpus-callosum.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jeff Sickel Subject: Re: [9fans] Capitalization in man pages. Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:56:08 -0600 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: bbad216a-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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