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Re:On Composition (2019) by sitkack on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:38AM (#22063916)
Composition is as powerful as the basis functions it rides on and as you outlined the basis fn of Unix are a mess.

To me the elephant in the room is how we use the heap and why there are 10k serialization techniques. Why are we serializing anyway?

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Re:On Composition (2019) by dreamcompiler on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:01AM (#22065726)
Because it's the lowest common denominator between different implementations of a type. The real question is why every language and subsystem invents its own binary type implementation.
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Re:On Composition (2019) by FisDugthop on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:28PM (#22066711)
Right. We should all be using OpenTheory [0].

[0] http://www.gilith.com/opentheory/

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