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From: Dave Mason <dmason@sarg.ryerson.ca>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wildcard expansion/command line
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:11:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205141311.g4EDBFb07413@sarg.ryerson.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 2002 08:52:32 EDT." <15585.2192.709871.920355@tkb.mpl.com>

>>>>> On Tue, 14 May 2002 08:52:32 -0400, "T. Kurt Bond" <tkb@tkb.mpl.com> said:

> having the shell do it makes most programs simpler, which is
> probably why Unix ended up with the shell doing the work.

And the other reason.... think 64Kb address spaces and 128Kb machines,
and no shared libraries.

Today the advantage for it is absolute consistency.

../Dave
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-14 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-14  7:50 Jens Olsson
2002-05-14  8:24 ` Maxence Guesdon
2002-05-14 12:52   ` T. Kurt Bond
2002-05-14 13:11     ` Dave Mason [this message]
2002-05-14 13:30 ` Oliver Bandel
2002-05-14 15:52 ` John Max Skaller

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