In article <·············@sonic.net> Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net> writes:
>I'm more of the opinion that the services provided by the operating
>system should be unspeakably simple -- dealing perhaps with disk
>sectors even rather than files -- and the entire abstraction supported
>by languages then ought to be built in the language implementations.
>
>The benefit of course is that you'd not have people trying to do the
>square-peg-in-the-round-hole business that you get with, eg, trying
>to support file security on DOS, or all of the open options on UNIX,
>or whatever.
That's never going to happen because the implementation of files
always has to be separate from the language to allow sharing between
processes.
Wouldn't it be funny if a C program couldn't read a file because it
was created by Scheme?
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