[aklug] Re: Meet an Ubuntu user

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barsalou wrote:
> +1, I'm with Josh on this one.
>
> Mike B.
>
> Quoting "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com>:
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>> 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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Abstraction is for wimps. Real men code everything in assembly.

mov eax, 0x01
ret

See, practically half a network manager done already. Now we just need
to add the networking part and the management part.

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Received on Thu Sep 24 22:25:26 2009