25 Jan
2021
25 Jan
'21
5:04 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:55:34AM -0500, Richard Salz wrote:
Osterhout's Tk was beyond amazing.
Still is, really. So far as I know, nobody has come up with anything better.
It had no XDR because it was "reader makes it
right" and datatypes
were tagged.
That's the first I've heard of that and I really like it. Most of the
time, you are on a network of machines that are the same, so why have
a network byte order, reader makes it right will just work. Neat.
--lm