One of the very few situations in which I think Unix did things better than stuff that came later is libraries. Well-architected C APIs are so much easier to deal with than COM-like systems. (Not that Unix APIs were well-architected, mind you)
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Replying to @whitequark @pcwalton
or more precisely, the dynamic linkers i feel like if you have to have a segment specifically dedicated for something C++ invented you have failed on multiple occasions *waves hands* somewhere in the design
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Replying to @whitequark
Fair enough, but I wasn’t counting C++ as Unix :)
12:25 PM - 22 Jun 2018
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