Markus Wichmann said:
> The more I read of POSIX, the more I think those options are only there
> because they were easy to add to some specific implementations.
Actually options in POSIX are mostly those already found in some
specific implementations - the main idea behind POSIX is to create a
subset of UNIX interfaces one should expect on generic POSIX system.
> [...] and when you try to do something really crazy and new,
> like using a new language (go) or a new paradigm (haskell) then good
> luck getting that to conform.
Which is not surprising, given that POSIX is about compatibility, which
is almost directly opposite concept to innovation.
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Received on Tue Mar 11 2014 - 21:35:36 CET