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From: maht <mattmobile@proweb.co.uk>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] channels across machines
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:23:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A698B87.3030709@proweb.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e885d3304d88bbf387c3acd08918a00b@quanstro.net>

It sounds to me like you have one specific problem you are trying to
generalize by sending ADTs across the wire. Microsoft and IBM "solved"
it with Com & Corba - later picked up by GNOME for the same job -
though, of course, they added RPC into the mix.
XML, S-expr, JSON all try and solve the same problem and add REST / SOAP
/ crap de jour for RPC.

Plan9 chose 9p. Seeing as your endpoints already know the layout of the
struct, they present a directory tree to write into.

You mentioned you wanted ALT, your server can do that for you on Clunk.





  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-18  8:38 Akshat Kumar
2009-07-18 16:53 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-18 17:06   ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-24 10:23     ` maht [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-18  7:43 Bakul Shah
2009-07-18 10:25 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-18 10:38   ` Mechiel Lukkien
2009-07-18 11:33     ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-18 18:52   ` Bakul Shah
2009-07-18 19:32     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-07-18 17:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-07-18 17:22   ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-18 21:02   ` Bakul Shah

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