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And it needs to use Pones!

What are Pones, you might ask! Well, they're kind of like Nodes, but more vague and general purpose, so you can use them everywhere, for everything, no matter what you're doing!

I like to think of a PONE as the ultimate middleware between COM and NT. So you can't have a COMPONENT without a PONE! But they're great with all kinds of other stuff, too, like XML Pones, and JSON Pones, and Kuber Pones, and Reactive Pones, and Elm Pones, and Corn Pones.

Pones are disruptive, yet social!

Pones are taking the Internet by storm!

Live long and use lots of Pones!

“You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I’ll tell you what his ‘pinions is.” -Mark Twain

Mark Twain: Corn-pone Opinions

http://www.paulgraham.com/cornpone.html

>[...] Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, corn-pone stands for self-approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is conformity. Sometimes conformity has a sordid business interest -- the bread-and-butter interest -- but not in most cases, I think. I think that in the majority of cases it is unconscious and not calculated; that it is born of the human being's natural yearning to stand well with his fellows and have their inspiring approval and praise -- a yearning which is commonly so strong and so insistent that it cannot be effectually resisted, and must have its way. A political emergency brings out the corn-pone opinion in fine force in its two chief varieties -- the pocketbook variety, which has its origin in self-interest, and the bigger variety, the sentimental variety -- the one which can't bear to be outside the pale; can't bear to be in disfavor; can't endure the averted face and the cold shoulder; wants to stand well with his friends, wants to be smiled upon, wants to be welcome, wants to hear the precious words, "He's on the right track!" Uttered, perhaps by an ass, but still an ass of high degree, an ass whose approval is gold and diamonds to a smaller ass, and confers glory and honor and happiness, and membership in the herd. For these gauds many a man will dump his life-long principles into the street, and his conscience along with them. We have seen it happen. In some millions of instances. [...]




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