-----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] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@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-----