Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:10:53 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> boringly babbled:

If you are writing network software for Linux, how is it relevant to
learn about the sound API, or the more advanced filesystem API's ?  If

You don't, but the subsystems don't exist in isolation, there's a lot of
overlap. Eg network sockets use a lot of the same API functions as files
(eg: read, write, fcntl, ioctl) so understanding may well help to understand
the other.

you are writing a gui program with QT, why should you be interested in X
APIs or POSIX threading and file handling - you'll be using the QT
libraries and APIs for graphics, threading and file handling.

Not necessarily.

I have not suggested, or even hinted, that all you need is "core C" -
what you need is the knowledge that is relevant to the task at hand,
regardless of the OS, language, or whatever.

Its certainly the impression you gave.