[Flame Bait] - Linux as bloatware

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 03:31, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > > And while we're thinking about code reuse, why does 'dll hell' occur?
> >
> > ----
> > save that one for a Windows list please.
> >
> It wasn't meant as a question, Craig.  Dll hell occurs, AIUI, precisely 
> because there is shared code, badly written and badly controlled.

I'd say it happens because people choose not to use the existing
shared code but instead duplicate it in an incompatible way.
Sometimes this happens because the original version omits a
needed feature, sometimes because the subsequent programmer
didn't understand the correct way to use the original or just
wants to do it his own way.  

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  Les Mikesell
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