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- Submitted-by: Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
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- lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com (Donald Lewine) writes:
- >POSIX does not specify dynamic linking and is not likely to do so.
- >POSIX covers the source level view of the computer. There is no
- >need (as far as POSIX is concerned) to ever compile or link anything.
- >
- >One could implement POSIX using a very fast and very smart cockroach.
- >As long as the source program produces the right output the cockroach
- >is POSIX conforming.
-
- This is the standard argument from language specification people to
- ignore certain issues of the real world. Remember what it did to
- Pascal, which tried to ignore the issue of separate compilation. Come
- on folks, the C standard requires binary arithmetic!
- That's the way to go!
-
- Thes standards (especially POSIX!) are for users, not for
- mathematiciancs. As soon as good implementations of dynamic loading
- become common (and I suspect this will be very soon) a cry for
- standardization will result.
-
- I have already been forced to design a lowest-common-denominator
- dynamic loading interface and to provide two different implementations
- for it, in order to support extensibility for a very portable language
- implementation I'm maintaining, and I hope I won't have to write too
- many other ports.
-
- --Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@cwi.nl>
- "The plumage don't enter into it. He's stone dead!"
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- Volume-Number: Volume 26, Number 106
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