1 Aug
2021
1 Aug
'21
5:26 a.m.
On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 4:37 PM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Warner Losh writes:
The large number of times I've had to replace inline code like you've
quoted with
getopt to fix the irregularities in command line parsing suggests that we
differ on
this viewpoint.
Warner
The flip side to this is that libraries can be debugged once, while
inline
code like the above needs to be deugged over and
over....
Well, no. Inline code doesn't need to be debugged over and over. It
doesn't
have to be written from scratch every time. While in theory your point
about
libraries is correct, it hasn't seem to have worked out in practice.
Better
in C than in node.js, but there have been plenty of spectacular bugs found
in
old C libraries recently.