Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux

Posted Mar 3, 2007 2:05 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux by k8to
Parent article: Quote of the week

The billion insane flags and magic secret interactions are worse. It makes
open()+fcntl() look sane and pleasant.

Some idle comments about Linus' e-mail response and Linux

Posted Mar 4, 2007 9:04 UTC (Sun) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

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.

I've unfortunately programmed the win32 api before, although in its "sanitized" form, called Mono.