posix has been rendered useless, isn't it?

[William A. Mahaffey III]

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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