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From: Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix APIs: elegant or not?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:33:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <710E5C36-BCDA-4E9F-A54C-D794497DEBA9@serissa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2OF9HLBH_8XmJ52v+BPvsFfEzrcvOy_ZEoQUmPR8sp51Q@mail.gmail.com>

My version of this:

With JCL, it is as easy to read 1000 tapes as it is to read one tape.

For JCL, substitute the all-singing API of your choice.

On the other hand you can spend a very long time writing code that actually responds correctly to all the failure cases in, say, a TCP stream connection.

-L


  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-31 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-31  4:38 Warren Toomey
2018-10-31 15:47 ` Paul Winalski
2018-10-31 17:22   ` Clem Cole
2018-10-31 19:33     ` Lawrence Stewart [this message]
2018-10-31 20:57   ` G. Branden Robinson
2018-10-31 21:31   ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-01  7:42     ` Pierre DAVID
2018-11-01 10:20       ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-01 12:57         ` Clem Cole
2018-11-01 14:19           ` ron minnich
2018-11-01 14:41             ` Clem Cole
2018-11-01 16:43               ` Warner Losh
2018-11-01 16:48                 ` ron minnich
2018-11-01 16:56                   ` Warner Losh
2018-11-02  5:24                   ` Bakul Shah
2018-11-04 10:53         ` Chris Hanson
2018-11-04 15:34           ` ron minnich
2018-11-04 17:06             ` Warner Losh
2018-11-04 20:00               ` ron minnich
2018-11-04 18:52           ` Bakul Shah
2018-11-04 10:49 ` Chris Hanson
2018-11-04 12:28   ` arnold
2018-11-04 21:34     ` Chris Hanson
2018-11-05 14:11       ` Donald ODona
2018-11-04 13:35   ` Warner Losh
2018-11-04 19:47   ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-01 15:39 Noel Chiappa
2018-11-04 22:29 Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-04 22:37 Noel Chiappa
2018-11-05  4:04 ` Dave Horsfall

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