[ale] MSH

[Christopher Fowler]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 01:51, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> On Wed,  5 Jan 2005 01:12:34 -0500, John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> > Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> said:
> > 
> > > I like Objects just like the next fellow but Objects = Bloat.  Bloat
> > > equals loss of memory and slowness.
> > 
> > Sorry Chris....I have to say that's a pretty naive statement.  
> 
> I don't think it's so much a case of being naive as much as it is a
> kneejerk negative reaction to Microsoft one-upping *nix. Happens all
> the time. I do take Chris' point about bloat, but sometimes bloat is
> OK as long as it is accompanied by a useful feature set. Technically ,
> vi is very much bloated when compared to other alternatives. It's all
> relative I guess.

Not sure how this is a reacation to one one-upping unix.  MSH is a
user-space app.  This can be created in Linux as well.  I can simply
walk /proc and create a pile of objects based on those processes and
send those objects across a pipe.