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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fork: useless and painful?
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:20:26 -0600
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Lucio De Re wrote:

> I thought the object oriented paradigm would at least be able to hide
> that from the programmer.  Weird...

The weirdest thing about the "OO paradigm" is how badly it is done in so
many places.

I was looking at one "OO" os. Floppy, disk, console, etc. were all
different types of "objects", all accessed very differently. What's the
point of OO if you do that type of thing?

ron