[Flame Bait] - Linux as bloatware

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 10:42, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > > It wasn't meant as a question, Craig.  Dll hell occurs, AIUI, precisely
> > > because there is shared code, badly written and badly controlled.
> >
> > I'd say it happens because people choose not to use the existing
> > shared code but instead duplicate it in an incompatible way.
> > Sometimes this happens because the original version omits a
> > needed feature, sometimes because the subsequent programmer
> > didn't understand the correct way to use the original or just
> > wants to do it his own way.
> >
> All likely to be contributory factors.  Either way, they are down to shared 
> code in windows.

Shared libraries have the same advantages and issues even in
systems with reasonable version-numbering designs.  You just
end up with the bloat of multiple on-disk and in-memory copies
of every little routine more often than crashing.

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  Les Mikesell
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