On 8/27/23 23:59, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>> I am OK with duck-typing, but what is "all meaningful ways"? Sure, POSIX is
>> meaningful, the exact output of uname is not, etc. but where do we draw the
>> line?
> That is a question for which I do not currently have a certain answer. :/
Thanks, we'l
John Ericson wrote:
On 8/27/23 01:06, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
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Ah sorry, I shouldn't have made reference to JSON at all --- what I
really was getting at is the /abstract syntax/. In particular,
rather than having an abstract syntax of "list of strings" (parsing
today's concrete syntax by b
On 8/27/23 01:06, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
As I understand the history, Linux was the first clearly Free kernel
available. At the time, BSD still had a dark cloud hanging over it
due to its (distant) origins at AT&T; the BSD and AT&T UNIX codebases
would not be legally recognized as separate unt
