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From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: Bengt.Kleberg@uab.ericsson.se (Bengt Kleberg)
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: RC => POSIX
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:22:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0w9GFw-00076vC@most.weird.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Bengt Kleberg's message of "Mon, March 24, 1997 10:18:15 +0100" regarding "Re: RC => POSIX" id <199703240918.KAA15116@uabx04c397.uab.ericsson.se>

[ On Mon, March 24, 1997 at 10:18:15 (+0100), Bengt Kleberg wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: RC => POSIX
>
> This is what I don't like. When it comes to programming I prefer restrictions.

Perhaps you're not aware of just how restrictive POSIX programming must
be.  Where it's not restricted things are left completely un-defined.
At least with the general GNU coding all variants of systems can be
taken into account and all features of systems can be used.

-- 
							Greg A. Woods

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Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>


  reply	other threads:[~1997-03-24 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-03-24  9:18 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-24 20:22 ` Greg A. Woods [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-03-29 20:23 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-27  9:58 Malte Uhl
1997-03-26 11:54 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-26 16:45 ` Greg A. Woods
1997-03-26  8:33 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-26 16:38 ` Greg A. Woods
1997-03-25 22:30 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-08  0:13 Byron Rakitzis
1997-03-06 17:40 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 17:15 Alan Watson
1997-03-06 17:54 ` Scott Schwartz
     [not found] <199703061512.KAA21040@explorer2.clark.net>
1997-03-06 16:57 ` Malte Uhl
1997-03-06 16:54 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 15:22 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 14:09 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-06 13:46 Tom Culliton
1997-03-06 10:16 Bengt Kleberg
1997-03-07  1:45 ` Greg A. Woods

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