Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux
Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux
Posted Mar 2, 2007 1:00 UTC (Fri) by k8to (guest, #15413)In reply to: Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux by cpeterso
Parent article: Quote of the week
The name, for starters.
Posted Mar 3, 2007 2:05 UTC (Sat)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Posted Mar 4, 2007 9:04 UTC (Sun)
by k8to (guest, #15413)
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I've unfortunately programmed the win32 api before, although in its "sanitized" form, called Mono.
The billion insane flags and magic secret interactions are worse. It makes Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux
open()+fcntl() look sane and pleasant.
Oh absolutely. I just find it impressive that they couldn't even figure out that "files" are not just windows api constructs, but really exist on the disk, and so the name is just wrong. It's like opening and closing quotes to the explitive which is the implementation.Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux