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Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:34:26 -0700
From: Geoffrey Avila <avlg@sdsc.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] XML
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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><request>T</request><requesttype>R</requesttype><fid><number><digit><binary>1</binary><binary>0>/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.
>