Beautiful response to a recurrent misunderstanding. "Shell languages are defined by their terseness." It is common to see people put a layer of verbosity on top of the Bourne shell (or system(3)) to make "a new shell".…
What is ELF? (top) ELF is a binary format designed to support dynamic objects and shared libraries. On older COFF and ECOFF systems, dynamic support and shared libraries were not naturally supported by the underlying…
Ancient history question: What was the main problem the creators of the ELF were trying to address at the time the ELF was adopted?
Ah, I had forgotten where this comes from. This makes sense; OpenBSD's default shell is pdksh or some derivative thereof, if I recall correctly.
You forgot PG's old company, Viaweb. Personally, I do not believe that money magically makes software better. Some of the best code I have ever seen was written by "academics" who received little to nothing for writing…
Perhaps Bruce Evans' C compiler, linker and assembler? It worked well enough to compile early Linux kernels.
Beautiful response to a recurrent misunderstanding. "Shell languages are defined by their terseness." It is common to see people put a layer of verbosity on top of the Bourne shell (or system(3)) to make "a new shell".…
What is ELF? (top) ELF is a binary format designed to support dynamic objects and shared libraries. On older COFF and ECOFF systems, dynamic support and shared libraries were not naturally supported by the underlying…
Ancient history question: What was the main problem the creators of the ELF were trying to address at the time the ELF was adopted?
Ah, I had forgotten where this comes from. This makes sense; OpenBSD's default shell is pdksh or some derivative thereof, if I recall correctly.
You forgot PG's old company, Viaweb. Personally, I do not believe that money magically makes software better. Some of the best code I have ever seen was written by "academics" who received little to nothing for writing…
Perhaps Bruce Evans' C compiler, linker and assembler? It worked well enough to compile early Linux kernels.