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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!klaus
- From: klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: Favourite DOMAIN/OS features (or mis-features)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.072917.19990@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 07:29:17 GMT
- References: <92206.12:40:04.711328.L58@vm.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <1992Jul29.034229.23500@alphalpha.com>
- Sender: klaus@freja.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- The most important things have already been mentioned: the DM, the typed
- file system, //, and tb. A very good point I have not seen mentioned yet
- is the logical naming scheeme for the system calls. It has at least 3
- advantages
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- 1) When I chose a name for something in a program, there won't be an
- obscure system call with the same name, which by Murphy's law I
- will later need to use.
-
- 2) When looking through a program, written by me or someone else,
- I never have to check if a name is defined in the program or
- or is a system call.
-
- 3) Even if I have never used a particular system call, I can usually
- see at a glance what kind of thing it does.
-
- Klaus O K
-