From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: [9fans] file name completion Message-ID: From: To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:20:24 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: aeec8a82-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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.