On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:04:12 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 01:53:44AM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote:
>
> > it comes from ancient Unix times when we
> > did not know better, and the daemon() function should either
> > disappear into oblivion, or have a place in the museum of medieval
> > programming as an example of how not to write Unix software.
>
> That museum could actually be useful. Especially if it were to
> explain why these once-advocated techniques were used, why they
> should not be, and what to do instead.
>
> Maybe this should be a curated wiki?

I'll write an article on how flowcharts produced spaghetti.

SteveT

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