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		hshehehjdjdjd on June 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Torvalds: Standards need to be questioned The people on the standards committee, at least for C++, tend to be heavy users of the language.

Gibbon1 on June 6, 2018 [–]

My theory is there ware two kinds of programs.

Type one: where all the side effects are hidden behind an OS call.

Type two: Where side effects are primary and unavoidable.

People on the standards committee universally write type one code (compilers and the like). Where the Linux kernel is type two.

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