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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Seeking for papers about tagged types vs access to subprograms
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 14:46:54 +0200
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On Wed, 15 May 2013 07:31:36 -0400, Peter C. Chapin wrote:

> On Wed, 15 May 2013, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> If you have a broken OS, like Linux/Windows is, you cannot have this 
>> abstraction. Instead you emulate it as a lower-level stream of octets 
>> with escape sequences used to simulate lines. What is wrong with that? 
>> It conflates representation with the interface.
> 
> The genius of the Linux (and Windows) way of representing files is that 
> the operating system does not need to know anything about the nature of 
> the data being stored in the files.

E.g. in order to execute it. Right?

> Thus new file types can be defined by 
> applications without any OS changes. This does push the burden of 
> interpreting the file's format into the application but the benefit is a 
> more generic operating system.

Viruses and performance that makes i7 to perform as i486.

> When one considers all the different kinds 
> of files created by applications today, I can't imagine any other way 
> working well.
 
A much more efficient, safer, compacter system?

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de