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The notion that it's about fixing bugs in one place is revisionist. It's not what people thought they were for when they were introduced.
by jblow 7y ago
The notion that it's about fixing bugs in one place is revisionist. It's not what people thought they were for when they were introduced.
- klodolph 7y agoThis isn’t history, the relevant question is what shared libraries are for, not what they were intended to be for.
- acdha 7y agoThat’s a really broad claim to toss around with no documentation. It wasn’t true at least as far back as the 1990s and I would especially want a citation for the belief that there was a unified single voice across so many different engineering teams.