Chris's Wiki :: blog/unix/UnixAPIAndCRuntime Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixAPIAndCRuntime?atomcommentsDWiki2024-02-16T08:21:10ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/unix/UnixAPIAndCRuntime.By Verisimilitude on /blog/unix/UnixAPIAndCRuntimetag:CSpace:blog/unix/UnixAPIAndCRuntime:4f2930e45c41f0a15b6175096b892f16d18fe115Verisimilitudehttp://verisimilitudes.net<div class="wikitext"><p>Unfortunately and despite contrary claims, it is effectively so. Avoiding it is necessary, difficult, and poorly-documented. Pull in one speck, and the entire pig wants in the house.</p>
<p>However, attempting to force the C language on us is their undoing. Those text-replacement macros and other nonsense are too hard to change and, because the only value in UNIX is what already runs on it, they never will be changed. This makes the initial effort to circumvent the garbage worthwhile, because they dare not make large changes, even though they believe them to be possible.</p>
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