[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:11:48PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2010, Alain Williams stated:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:13:59AM +0100, Nix wrote:
> >
> >> I'd say that POSIX is useful for one thing: you can program to it and be
> >> pretty damn sure that it'll run just about everywhere (some of us have
> >> to write code that runs on non-Linux platforms too).
> >
> > +1
> 
> And you can use it as a stick to beat the idiot developer majority who
> write 'portable' code from guesswork and random system man pages. :)

The one that really makes me dispair is the one who writes it for the
system that he has in front of himself and assumes that every machine
should be like that.

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