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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Raw Input Driver
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:29:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df49a7370903200729m3fde7024wbffaba94eeddf5ec@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03BDF13C-41F0-44B4-930B-EC8E8D31E3DC@lsub.org>

2009/3/20 Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>:
> El 20/03/2009, a las 14:07, rogpeppe@gmail.com escribió:
>> so you end up with a smart client or split application,
>> which lack the same easy composability that you get
>> from plan 9's remote devices.

perhaps i should have written "generality and easy composability"
there. i'm sure it's possible to make easily composable applications
with other metaphors (octupus being one example) but is it
possible to do so without making some strong assumptions
about the user-interaction model of the application?



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-20 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-20 14:18 Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-03-20 14:29 ` roger peppe [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-20 14:46 Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-03-20 14:35 Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-03-20 14:22 Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-03-20 14:32 ` roger peppe
2009-03-20 15:17 ` lucio
2009-03-20  7:00 James Tomaschke
2009-03-20  7:07 ` lucio
2009-03-20  7:57   ` James Tomaschke
2009-03-20  9:12     ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-20 11:05       ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-20 10:54         ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-03-20 11:07         ` cinap_lenrek
2009-03-20 11:28         ` roger peppe
2009-03-20 11:39           ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2009-03-20 12:04             ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-20 11:32         ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-20 12:23           ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-20 12:16             ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-20 13:03             ` roger peppe
2009-03-20 13:37               ` tlaronde
2009-03-20 14:26                 ` roger peppe
2009-03-20 15:02                   ` tlaronde
2009-03-20 15:14                     ` tlaronde
2009-03-20 12:52           ` maht
2009-03-20 22:23         ` James Tomaschke
2009-03-20  9:13     ` lucio

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