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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob ?stergaard wrote:

> I'm a little scared when our VFS guy claims he never heard of excellent
> programmers using scanf in a way that led to parse errors.

I've seen excellent programmers fscking up use of && and ||.

I've also seen quite a few guys coming (from their experience) to
the conclusions that look an awful lot similar to mine.  Like, say it,
dmr and ken.  Or Linus.  Or Rob Pike.  Or Brian Kernighan.

And frankly, when I hear about "typed" interfaces, two things come to
mind - "typed files" and CORBA.  Both - architectural failures.

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