Re:If everything in Unix development is POSIX, what the hell...
by seabee on Sunday January 02, 2011 @06:54PM
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Certainly, but you don't have to go as far back as that for an example: just compare the drive letters in Windows to the lack of them in Unix.
It works very well in Lua's favour to stick to just the C library given the desire to use it in embedded computers. However, it's valid to wonder why a basic feature supported by 99% of computers is not available out of the box; you judge things based on what's available now, not the past. I should think the C library would be quite different had it been designed 20 years later.
It works very well in Lua's favour to stick to just the C library given the desire to use it in embedded computers. However, it's valid to wonder why a basic feature supported by 99% of computers is not available out of the box; you judge things based on what's available now, not the past. I should think the C library would be quite different had it been designed 20 years later.