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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Writing an Operating System in Ada
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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:27:52 +0100
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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:09:58 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov schrieb:
> 
>> The problem is that we followed the wrong path for too long. All these
>> standards (XML to name one) are based on these flawed untyped file - "don't
>> care about the contents" model. There could be no return, maybe.
> 
> The name "Don't care about the operations" model of file systems seems
> adequate because virtually all contemporary file systems and
> archive formats offer file type indication (via extended
> attributes).

Oh yes, it is a shoe carton with a big fat label on it: "Mercedes". Look,
it is not the label, but the operations, which make the thing what it is. A
shoe carton is a carton no matter how you name it. A file is an object with
the operations getc, putc, period. Mercedes is an object with the
operations drive etc.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de