Re: Word For Today: “Uglification”

On 3/12/24 02:14, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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The problem I have with that is the singular form of “library”. In a
typical Linux distro, you could have thousands of libraries installed.
I just did this command on my Debian system:
 
    dpkg-query -l lib*dev | wc -l
 
and the answer came back “1037”. The idea that a C-language
implementation and run-time environment is any sense monolithic seems
hopelessly out of touch.

It was never monolithic, any more than talking about the United States
implies that the United States is a monolithic entity. The standard
allows an implementation to have many separate parts, by failing to
prohibit such a structure - but everything it says about one is about
the implementation as a whole, not the individual parts.