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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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James Ross <rem.jr@rem.webross.com> writes:

>   - Uninstall should leave nothing behind (nor side effects)

Yeah.  Why do Unix and Windows applications scatter pieces of themselves
all over the place?  Why is "install" more complicated than a copy (with
maybe a decompression)?  Why is "uninstall" more complicated than
deleting a directory tree?

>   - Total separation of Data from Applications.  

Not sure what you mean by that.  Sounds like you're outlawing compilers,
linkers, and loaders, which treat programs as data.

- Bob