Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 14:16:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dennis@et.htp.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message-ID: <199507282116.OAA02502@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <8795.806963779@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 28, 95 01:36:19 pm
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... > There is a better way, and it's called the Object model.. No, I'm not > a C++ or Smalltalk fanatic, and I think that the whole OOP thing has > actually been considerably over-hyped, but this is one instance where > the fundamental tennets of object orientation are quite sound. Files > should be objects with extensible, inheritable behaviors. Instead of > ioctl()'ing them, you should send them messages which propagate up the > inheritance chain as necessary. You should also be able to have > arbitrary properties that can be associated with them as necessary, > thus ending the "suffix bodge" once and for all. Sounds like Aegis (aka Domain/OS) to me :-). Is that where you are drawing your ``object model'' from? If so, maybe we have a very common ground here that we would both just _love_ to see done in a BSD based system. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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