[aklug] Re: Meet an Ubuntu user

+1, I'm with Josh on this one.

Mike B.

Quoting "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com>:

> On Thursday 24 September 2009, jonr@destar.net said something like:
>> But because wget's options weren't the same on both of those systems
>> we could write an application that is not on all *nix systems and use
>> that instead?
>>
>> Or maybe just code for the slight variations of some implementations
>> of wget and ifconfig on different systems.
>
> Rather than make every programmer know the variations of every system,
> why not have a few experts who know this and can make a good,
> abstracted API? Similiarly: Why have Qt? Why doesn't every programmer
> learn the variations across all operating systems to code their
> application and its windowing interface?
>
> The goal of abstraction is to make programming easier, and let others
> worry about the nitty-gritty details. Notice I said "goal," it doesn't
> always work out that way.
>
> [I doubt spawning a system call and grepping ifconfig is really the best
> way to check the state of a network interface. I'm sure what Network
> Manager abstracts is querying the OS's networking APIs.
>
> j
>
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Received on Thu Sep 24 22:12:14 2009