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From: <cej@gli.cas.cz>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] file name completion
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:20:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ACCF003CBA3D09458207DB0CB86AD17D124CE6@XMAIL.asuch.cas.cz> (raw)



>  A nice exercise in its usefulness is the breaking down of a huge, monolithic program such
>  as Links into smaller parts tied together by plumbing -- from an all-encompassing piece of
>  code that knows how to handle everything from rendering html tables to handling ftp and
>  samba protocols, into a simple html renderer that works with the plumber to give out work
>  to whichever external program is best suited for the job (and not having to know anything
>  about them)...

>  I have found that for day-to-day stuff, the plumber is one of the most-often used Plan 9
>   "features" that do not exist anywhere else, save Inferno.  Second only to private namespaces.

That's it!
++pac.


             reply	other threads:[~2003-12-22  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-22  8:20 cej [this message]
2003-12-22 11:38 ` Charles Forsyth
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-23  0:32 Rob 'Commander' Pike
2003-12-22  6:19 Rob 'Commander' Pike
2003-12-22  5:48 ` mirtchov
2003-12-22 16:15   ` ron minnich
2003-12-23  1:17     ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-23  5:13       ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-24  3:32         ` okamoto
2003-12-23 23:54       ` Steve Kilbane
2003-12-27 17:56       ` Jack Johnson
2003-12-28 19:54         ` Scott Schwartz
2003-12-29  1:20           ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-22 23:02   ` rob pike, esq.
2004-01-06 14:35   ` rog
2004-01-06 15:01     ` rob pike, esq.
2004-01-07  0:16     ` Russ Cox
2003-12-22 16:12 ` Sape Mullender

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