From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2005-04-01T04:45:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Respect and Disappointment

Hi .. 

 On Thursday 31 March 2005 07:09, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Thursday 31 March 2005 06:04 am, Lopy wrote:
> > What's worse, the so called "hackers" really like that
> > "everything is a file" mantra.
>
> What is the alternative mantra / paradigm?
>

Have a look at 

  http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html

A few paradigms come to mind:

  Object Oriented -- all OS components are first class objects (Oberon)
  Distributed Objects -- all OS components are distributed objects (Amoeba)
  No Files -- there is no concept of files at all, just an app (embedded OSs) 

The "everything is a file" is a *nix mantra.  The original MacOS wasn't like 
that at all.

Regards,

-- 
-mark.  (probertm at acm dot org)