> And if the whole is a technical progress, is a more complicated > thing. I preffer to take a constant from sys/params.h at > compile time than getting it with a call of sysconf() at run time. > The older standards arose perhaps from considerations that > today are forgotten or play no role anymore. Later one will have different > prefferences and new standards. As Ted said: standards change. > And we will always be "porting" software.
We prefer creating a world that is simpler. That is the practice we follow with our bodies of code. You prefer backwards compat. Fine, that is your choice. You can apply that principle in your own code. Are we finished here?
