On Oct 15, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>> No, you need to think in abstractions rather than POSIX-isms, and  
>> then
>> let each platform implement those abstractions as appropriate.
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> Last time I checked, POSIX was already an abstraction,  
> thankyouverymuch.

But as Eli pointed out, it's not universal, so you need higher  
abstractions on top of them.

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> Anyway, this discussion gets out of hand.

Not at all, actually I think some interesting points were made,  
including on the technical side of the thing.

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EPITA Research and Development Laboratory