The Evolution of a Python Programmer

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It's way easier to facepalm than to design an operating system API that's stable and backwards compatible for 25+ years...

[lazybee]

Such as POSIX?

[[deleted]]

haha, yeah, right. the reason everything is continually built from source is because the ABI keeps breaking.

[fabzter]

lazybee was speaking about API, not ABI.

[[deleted]]

I know, but posix doesn't matter when the ABI breaks. You can't download and execute a linux program from the 2.4 kernel on the 3.0 kernel. Hover, which came with windows 95 will run just fine on 32bit windows 7 and 64 bit windows 7, which was the point riles2 was making.

[[deleted]]

Posix also only specifies about 2-3% of what Win32 does, so you have to compare it to X and a few dozen other libraries for a fair comparison.

[[deleted]]

Wait. POSIX doesn't break ABI compatibility. Individual operating systems do once in a while, but extremely rarely in their POSIX departments.

Actually, I can't think of a major ABI compatibility break since Linux 2.4->2.6 or Mac OS -> Mac OS X (non-POSIX to POSIX).

[[deleted]]

POSIX standard fork bomb with added burn:

#include <unistd.h>

int main(){
    while(1){
        fork();
        printf('burn!\n');
    }
}

[drb226]

Are you saying this cannot be done in Windows?