At 05:29 AM 7/5/2001 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote:
>Thus spake the enlightened Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > i am going to make a proposal that we ('we' to be defined
> > later) develop
> > a new common event loop with two major goals in mind:
> >
> > 1. the event loop should be fully portable over all
> > modern unix OS's
> > and the win32 server flavors (nt, 2k).
> >
>
>VMS! We must have VMS! Oh, and it should proabably be
>modular enough that one can use a stripped down version of
>it to write Palm apps too. (Perl6 for the TI-89, anyone?)
VMS is actually easy here--it has a sane async I/O system to build on. It's
the various Unices that are a pain.
Dan
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