Re: [linux-audio-dev] defending simplicity

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] defending simplicity
From: David O'Toole (dto_AT_qwsi.net)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 12:13:14 EEST


Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
>
> There are also some suggestions to not make unnecessary limits to programs.
> See GNU coding style.

Let's be honest here. That section of the GNU coding guidelines has to
do with not statically allocating data structures. The example given is
how some UNIXes' text processing tools silently truncate lines that are
too long, which is unacceptable. Don't mistake this common-sense point
for a design philosophy.

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@@@ david o'toole
@@@ dto_AT_gnu.org
@@@ www.gnu.org/software/octal


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