From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <5d375e920705211141u5c8d12b3u140bcde4cb1d51ff@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:41:35 +0200 From: Uriel To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] XML In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10705210957w2982fa31lc6c22ff554fcd629@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6da95284-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 You have no heart, programmers have families to feed! This will keep hundreds of programmers employed for years to come. uriel P.S.: And be careful, you might offend the Apple and Sun fanboys in the audience. On 5/21/07, Geoffrey Avila wrote: > > > On a related note: > > Somebody at Sun decided that the thing Unix needed most of all was a way > to programmatically manipulate "init" via XML. What's worse is that a > completely independent team at Apple committed a starkly similar atrocity > at almost the same time. > > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/selfheal/smf-quickstart.html > > http://developer.apple.com/macosx/launchd.html > > Could someone explain this to me? Why would you do this? How could this > possibly be a net improvement? > > -GBA > > > > > > > > > <9p>TR10>/binary>... > > > > > > well, you get my drift. > > > > Shouldn't we move 9p to a standards-based, compliant, XML-based system > > with first-class enumerated elements in which all pluggable components > > are Python objects and hence first-class citizens and add a full > > compiler to enable translation and XML co-processor acceleration? > > > > Can I randomly permute the words in the previous sentence? Yes. > > Is that sentence like stuff I read nowadays? Yes. > > Is constant gnashing wearing off the enamel on my teeth? Yes, oh yes. > > >