Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 01:52:29 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: aaron <aaron@lo-res.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/include/netinet/in.h Message-ID: <20020509015229.A36156@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <3CD9727B.B53067A4@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 11:46:19AM -0700 References: <200205071814.46995.aaron@lo-res.org> <200205071937.20043.aaron@lo-res.org> <3CD8B8D3.F605B84B@mindspring.com> <200205081449.12733.aaron@lo-res.org> <3CD9727B.B53067A4@mindspring.com>
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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>: > OS's that have promiscuous includes (e.g. "if you include stdio.h, > everything else gets included for you") enable bad code to be > written unknowingly, by programmers who fail to remember the interface > requirements from the manual pages (or fail to check them when they > don't remember, and rely on the compiler to tell them when they are > missing an include file, so they can go read the manual page to find > out which include file is missing). What these programmers should really be doing is writing in a language that uses a more rigorous naming convention, or one that gives programmers more control over the namespace(s). Java is the only ``popular'' language I know of that does this fairly well, so it's too bad that the rest of Java sucks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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