-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/15/10 13:53 , Andrew Coppin wrote: > injection attacks, the Y2K bug, programs that can't handle files larger than > 2GB or that don't understand Unicode, and so forth. All things that could > have been almost trivially avoided if everybody wasn't so hung up on > absolute performance at any cost.
Now that's a bit unfair; nobody imagined back when lseek() was enshrined in the Unix API that it would still be in use when a (long) wasn't big enough :) (Remember that Unix is itself a practical example of a research platform "avoiding success at any cost" gone horribly wrong.) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxoK2gACgkQIn7hlCsL25VaHgCcCj8T8Qqfx4Co1lXZCH7BApkW iI8AoNcSabjLso9nXBfujeI+diC8rM78 =FwBb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
