Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:39:26 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: posix has been rendered useless, isn't it? Message-ID: <549705CE.1050108@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20141221175658.3d574a88.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20141221155635.GA1388@aio> <20141221175658.3d574a88.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 12/21/14 10:56, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:26:37 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
>> i have been studying the unix way of doing things,
>> i.e. tool-chaining to combine small programs for
>> accomplishing a solution.
> A noble goal.
>
>
>
>> but, almost none of today's servers built for any
>> of today's unix-like systems adhere to the unix
>> philosophy. most of them instead, are large
>> applications.
> The creation of monolithic applications can be a
> problem sometimes. It's often being accellerated
> by GUI paradigms where "one big program" is, often
> on the basic of object oriented programming (and
> the typical misunderstandings and misconceptions
> of that orientation), being "required" - you simply
> cannot easily apply the UNIX principles here.
>
Correctly applied OOP is (kinda) an extension of the UNIX philosophy
.... Well designed/documented/implemented objects can be assembled into
useful (compiled) programs readily & quickly. Incorrectly applied, or
crappy objects & you have a mess ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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