Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!kre From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Shared Lib Question (ISC) Message-ID: Date: 9 May 91 14:19:36 GMT References: <276@rwing.UUCP> <162@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <19252@rpp386.cactus.org> Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au Lines: 18 jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes: >The notion that there should >never be global variables with all manner of hidden side >effects was beaten into my brain as a CS undergrad. All kinds of generally true, but occasionally inadequate, principles are beaten into the brains of CS undergrads (or those that actually have such things) - CS undergrads are, as a rule, lacking in the maturity and experience needed to understand the subtleties of what really should be done. I suspect that dmr just may have had that experience and ability. >Were the code in the C library pure, shared libraries would >be extremely simple to implement. True, they'd also be close to useless. kre