CVS update: talon/htdocs

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Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 12:20:26 PST

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    Date: Thursday March 15, 19101 @ 12:20
    Author: burton
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            philosophy.shtml
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    File: talon/htdocs/philosophy.shtml

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    Index: talon/htdocs/philosophy.shtml
    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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