> Either way, my point is the "object" metaphor isn't really all that specific I still don't see how Plan9 is built on "objects". > functional operating syste

> Either way, my point is the "object" metaphor isn't really all that specific I still don't see how Plan9 is built on "objects". > functional operating systems I doubt functional metaphors are of any use in this domain. My point is that the abstraction continuum is far more diverse and deep than something as stupid as communicating objects or reducing lambda terms. My bet is on a linguistic abstraction, which covers interface unification as well as many other things.