Re: devolopin a mew lang........

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I hereby accuse Chris F.A. Johnson of stating:

On 2006-06-30, Aragorn wrote:
On Friday 30 June 2006 02:39, Chris F.A. Johnson stood up and spoke the
following words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/

On 2006-06-29, Aragorn wrote:

Traditionally, everything in UNIX is considered to be a file.

Traditionally, everything in UNIX is a stream of bytes.

That too of course. ;-) And then those bytes are neatly ordered in
files. ;-)

No, it's the other way round; files are seen as streams of bytes, as
are devices, and I/O.


It should be obvious, but...

What you "see" things as depends entirely on your vantage point.

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S. Tyler McHenry

http://www.nerdland.net/~tyler/info/

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