On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 04:29:48AM -0000, Jim Webber wrote: > Mark: > > > Because an inbox has an interface. > > I am talking at the level below here. I understand. My point remains that all Internet scale systems I've studied (including the ones I mentioned; email, Web, instant messaging) get to be Internet scale by defining abstractions at the level I'm talking about. Can you name one that doesn't? Do you think that's a coincidence? I don't. Agreement on application abstractions is what coordination languages are all about, and they go by that name for a good reason 8-). Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.caReceived on Monday, 9 February 2004 00:03:35 GMT
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