The standard operating system API should provide abstractions for all general real-world objects the machine is expected to represent or interact with: dates, t

The standard operating system API should provide abstractions for all general real-world objects the machine is expected to represent or interact with: dates, times, durations, recurrences, abstract time concepts like "the second Monday of every month except when it falls on a holiday", people, places, events, to-do lists... These are things that businesses have to deal with every day. The fact that we don't have those things, standard, as a part of a programmer's toolkit is a great failure of language and OS designers. https://web.archive.org/web/20180223094826/http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20091109/054578.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180223094826/http://www.xent.c...