Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:50:30 +0100 | From | Jakob Østergaard <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] |
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:29:06PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob %stergaard wrote: > > > I'm a little scared when our VFS guy claims he never heard of excellent > > programmers using scanf in a way that led to parse errors. > > I've seen excellent programmers fscking up use of && and ||. > > I've also seen quite a few guys coming (from their experience) to > the conclusions that look an awful lot similar to mine. Like, say it, > dmr and ken. Or Linus. Or Rob Pike. Or Brian Kernighan. > > And frankly, when I hear about "typed" interfaces, two things come to > mind - "typed files" and CORBA. Both - architectural failures.
Architectural failures like "C" or "C++" for example.
Strong type information (in one form or the other) is absolutely fundamental for achieving correctness in this kind of software.
You can't just have a "data thingy" and hope your "operator thingys" do what you suppose they do, and that your "storage thingy" has enough room for what you shovel into it.
C has types for a reason. C++ improved the type system for a reason. Perl and PHP programs have run-time failures for a reason.
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