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Auteur: Didier Kryn
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] Please keep 32-bits alive
Le 26/07/2017 à 11:06, Adam Borowski a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:55:32AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
>> Le 26/07/2017 à 07:52, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult a écrit :
>>>> I think that everyone should have to learn how to write a simple shell
>>>> for an 8-bit architecture before they can be considered a real
>>>> programmer. ;P
>>> ACK
>>      I totally disagree. Programming low level libc functions and programming
>> a full-featured web browser aren't the same kind of job at all and should be
>> done in neither the same state of mind, nor the same language. Most probably
>> they souldn't be done by the same kind of person.
> Nope, someone coding a web browser needs to know how libc functions work.


     All languages wrap libc's API with their own primitives: C wraps 
unistd's write() within printf() and fwrite() and even unistd's write() 
and seek() are wrappers for kernel's pwrite(). This even more true for 
higher level languages.


> Programming _on_ a browser indeed could get a pass, but then, it's not like
> Javascript is a real programming language... :p
>


I tend to consider Javascript as a junk language, but my opinion on it is not well educated. It might be good for what it was designed for.


> Meow!

     Wah! :-)