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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Simple example on interfaces
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:06:49 +0100
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On 2021-01-27 02:48, philip...@gmail.com wrote:
>> "IMHO, Interfaces are worthless."
> 
> I find interfaces to be extremely valuable for abstracting I/O devices.

Operating systems always were OO. It is impossible to design something 
like interrupt handler without dispatching. Interrupts are dispatching.

The question is never interfaces or not. It is how much language support 
I can get.

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