Re: open source, porting, etc. (was RE: more observations (and questions) on the SYS$I18N_LOCALE dirs)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 06:09 PM 11/13/00 -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>There is talk of using
>an stdio replacment library for Perl because the libraries of all the major
>Unix vendors have stdio routines that are broken or incompatible in various
>ways.

The biggest reason is that C's stdio model is just plain busted, and sucks 
in many profound and painful ways. I can't wait for it to get tossed for 
something better...

                                        Dan

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