Just so you know, I was a big person in information when it was centered in my home city of NY.
Just as NYC's tech industry collapsed (mostly, I believe because of the bombing of the WTC--which itself was a headquarters of free software), I was completing the design criterion of the Thinman model, which is an extension of Perl's CPAN to a VM that is open to the Internet for both data and code. It is anti-app in that each object, presumably a dataset, is, as it is evoked, its own app. Your friends list, as a small example, becomes a phone book in a flexible browser, when it is evoked in the context of a phone call through a model or other connection.
I personally know David Korn, which is significant to me, since I believe that his KSH, with its related commands and related shells such as BASH, has provided the best work, and play, environment we have. It has a little awkwardness (which is forgivable given it was a proof of concept at its inception in the 1970s), and no OO version Shell has been attempted. And needless to say, it lacked a visual desktop!
Other than those few issues, I cannot help but believe his traditional open shell still provides a model of the type of interactive framework that we need to bring to L4 as the default interface.
I have since taken social science paths, and perhaps because of this, I very much want to help work from the top down (as you are with your ground-breaking port) to the lower levels, where everybody else is, so that L4 growth can be what free software is really all about--our system!
John van V.
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Karthik Vadambacheri Manian karthikvm.uc@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the comments John. Its very encouraging!!
Regards, Karthik
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM, John van V. john.van.v@gmail.com wrote:
Great work, seriously!
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Karthik Vadambacheri Manian karthikvm.uc@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Currently I am trying to port a pingpong c++ application which uses time warped libraries. The time warped libraries use standard c++ library inturn. I tried to compile the pingpong application by modifying the makefiles to include the time warped headers. But I get lot of errors while compiling because during compilation the uclibc++ header files are used instead of standard c++ headers and they differ. Hence I tried to port the warped library functions for uclibc++ but it seems it needs a huge modification. Do modifying makefiles to use standard c++ header files instead of uclibc++ will break other systems? Please let me know your comments.
Thanks, Karthik.V.M. _______________________________________________ l4-hackers mailing list