Markus Wichmann said: > The more I read of POSIX, the more I think those options are only there > because they were easy to add to some specific implementations.
Actually options in POSIX are mostly those already found in some specific implementations - the main idea behind POSIX is to create a subset of UNIX interfaces one should expect on generic POSIX system. > [...] and when you try to do something really crazy and new, > like using a new language (go) or a new paradigm (haskell) then good > luck getting that to conform. Which is not surprising, given that POSIX is about compatibility, which is almost directly opposite concept to innovation. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
