Ignorance at work [LWN.net]

Ignorance at work

Posted Oct 19, 2010 10:32 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Ignorance at work by marcH
Parent article: Russell: On C Library Implementation

There's no object-oriented design or abstraction evident in the kernel until you look really deep into it, like the directory structure or the header files.

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Ignorance at work

Posted Oct 25, 2010 1:00 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (guest, #4458) [Link] (1 responses)

Au contraire, it is very evident each time you take a peek a device drivers, filesystems, ...

It is in operating systems (and then simulation) where OOP was first used...

Ignorance at work

Posted Oct 25, 2010 6:54 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Exactly my point. :)