8 Jun 2012 16:58
Re: Heresy alert, Zerox -> Clone
David Leimbach <leimy2k <at> gmail.com>
2012-06-08 14:58:16 GMT
2012-06-08 14:58:16 GMT
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 6:58 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro <at> quanstro.net> wrote:
> I see your point, I guess I can accept that. I still object to the idearight!
> of a whole other suite of programs just to run within the editor, but I
> guess it's immaterial whether the window system is part of the editor
> or the editor is part of the window system.
i'd also add that a program is much easier to reuse than a function
within a program.
- erik
Yes, which makes one wonder about type systems in programming languages and if they're any better than documented conventions of I/O. (i think they may not be, but they serve some documentation purposes all their own)
As an example:
I'm a rather big fan of systems like beanstalkd over say an AMQP implementation because beanstalkd's core is in a line base text protocol, and you can write a client for it in a shell if you really wanted to (it's trivial, I've done it in ZSH). I can't say the same for AMQP implementations or JMS etc.
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