Posix reflects a design view and practice. Caricatured only a little, it is that systems are desirably comprised of a great many very small, even minuscule exterrnal functions/routines.
Many C/C++ gurus and some others take this view. (I do not.) If you share it the next, obvious step to take is to try to minimize the "oveheads" of function invocation. Posix does this more or less well, at the price of some inflexibility and considerable complication in relating to the external, non-Posix operating-system environment. There are now situations in which the use of Posix is obligatory, and in them discussion of its merits is moot. Where this is not the case it use is likely to be deleterious unless you share its episteme. If not, beware. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
