- From: Miles Sabin <miles@mistral.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 01:46:36 -0000
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
Jeff Bone wrote, > As my perennial anecdotal evidence to suggest that system complexity > is vastly reduced and power gained by highly constrained type > systems / universal generic interfaces, consider the overall > simplicity and "functionality to lines-of-code" qualities obtained > in Plan vis-a-vis UNIX by pushing the "everything is a file," > "everything in the same namespace," and "text streams everywhere" > concepts to their logical conclusions. That's a good example, but it also does a good job of showing up the limitations of that sort of extremism. What are all those ioctls for if the Plan 9/UNIX model is really so uniform? Can you really accept() on a _file_ descriptor as opposed to a listening socket descriptor? Is the uniformity reality or ideology? I don't see why the web should be any different. In some cases loosely typed interfaces will fit well, in other cases strongly typed. I don't believe that one size can be made to fit all. Cheers, Miles
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