From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: talon/htdocs
Date: Thursday March 15, 19101 @ 12:20
Author: burton
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diff -u talon/htdocs/philosophy.shtml:1.1 talon/htdocs/philosophy.shtml:1.2
--- talon/htdocs/philosophy.shtml:1.1 Fri Mar 9 16:17:44 2001
+++ talon/htdocs/philosophy.shtml Thu Mar 15 12:20:26 2001
@@ -4,19 +4,25 @@
<h1>Talon</h1>
+<h3>Philosophy:</h3>
+
+<pre>
- XPLC
+
+- focused/small/tight components in the Unix tradition.
-- Small components in the Unix tradition.
+- Licensing needs to be very flexible so that components can be used everywhere.
-- Licensing needs to be very flexible.
+- Networking issues are not related to a component system. It is easy to add
+ network support later.
- Component systems don't exist today for a number of reasons.
- they are overly complex (again with small/easy to understand/components (like grep))
-- no central location for interfaces (ours will be driven by reputations)
+- No central location for interfaces (ours will be driven by reputations).
-- no way to report bugs or give feedback to the system. ( I don't like this ).
+- No way to report bugs or give feedback to the system. ( I don't like this ).
A quote from page 22 of "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" (PostScript
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.ps, PDF
@@ -24,8 +30,6 @@
There has been much talk about component architectures but only one true
success: Unix pipes. It should be possible to build interactive and distributed
applications from piece parts.
-
-
-<h3>Philosophy:</h3>
+</pre>
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