On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:05:52AM -0700, Linus Torvalds mentioned:
> Besides, note Alan's comment on "cleaner" and "maintainable". Black-box
> isolated interfaces _always_ end up being crap.
>
> I wonder why they still teach the isolationism ideas at computer science
> classes. It doesn't work, never has, and probably never will. There's
> not a _single_ successful case of isolating API's that I've ever heard
> of that works with more than one vendor.
What is an "isolationalist" (is that a real word?) API ? One that's
*just* for a specific type of device ? As in, "everyone use the
"input_register_device()" for most devices, but for FDDI chipset drivers,
use input_register_fddi_device(), because we've given that some extra
parameters" ?
Kate
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the merest hint is sufficient" -- Zen Master Greg
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