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Article #4246Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Christopher Browne
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:27
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 18:27
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svel <svek-NO-SPAM@gmx.net> wrote: > Tim Haynes <usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk> wrote in > news:868z4idvik.fsf@potato.vegetable.org.uk: > >> The point is that without glibc there, none of the packages you have >> installed would work. That makes it a pretty *important* "0.1%", >> IMNSHO. > > so everytime you write a program in C you should have to call it: > Dennis Ritchie/<your program name> > so in fact there is no glibc but Dennis Ritchie/glibc since glibc wouldn't > exist if it wasn't for the c programming language. > you see my point? ;) And according to what I heard the other day, you'd have to call it DR/SNOBOL/<your program name> because apparently the C I/O abstractions are largely derived from those in SNOBOL. It gets silly fast, nicely demonstrating the Ghandi principle that there are a lot more people interested in demanding credit for work than are willing to do work. -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "ac.notelrac.teneerf@" "454aa")) http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/lsf.html "If there are aliens, they use Lisp." --Edward Lasker, mutatis mutandi
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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: 11 Jul 2002 18:27:05 GMT
Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc
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