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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared libraries
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.004343.27551@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 00:43:43 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.231048.2987@Think.COM> <148@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1991Apr29.213522.29521@ladc.bull.com>
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In article <1991Apr29.213522.29521@ladc.bull.com> fmayhar@hermes.ladc.bull.com writes:
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>of this thread), shared libraries _are_ useful.  Their usefulness, in fact,
>outweighs the problems with them.  Why do you think shared libraries keep
>being reinvented?

 Perhaps because it is easier to keep reinventing shared libraries than it is
to do it right.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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