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| From | "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: Life is a stream? |
| Date | 2011-06-06 12:51 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <isj47p$68k$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <is1n3n$397$1@dont-email.me> <a884719c-907f-47bf-abf5-48f830086004@hl1g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> |
Michael Doubez wrote: > On 31 mai, 05:25, "MikeP" <mp011...@some.org> wrote: >> Programmers are enamoured with streams of bytes. > > Yep. that's Ol' man river. > >> Is that abstraction >> (i.e., generality) too rigidly modeled? I say, all IO (I/O?) is not >> alike, so why model it as if it is. What say you (y'all)? > > Are you talking about a model or the support for a model ? Note that this is a C++ NG. I was alluding to C++ recognizing only streams of bytes. > > However you interpret your data, it has eventually a beginning and a > end (out-of-bound data are stream in themselves) on a support which is > a represented as an ordered sequence of ones and zeros. The byte being > the smallest addressable unit. > >> Keywords and key phrases (why is "keyword" a compound word and "key >> phrase" two words?): stream of bytes, record IO, formatted IO, ASCII >> unit/record/group separator, compromise, designed for all cases but >> good for none (nothing),... other. > > Those are models with context; you are not at the same level. > > Could you elaborate ? No, that part was just food for thought.
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Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-05-30 22:25 -0500
Re: Life is a stream? BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-30 23:55 -0700
Re: Life is a stream? Michael Doubez <michael.doubez@free.fr> - 2011-05-31 02:50 -0700
Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-01 03:19 -0500
Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:51 -0500
Re: Life is a stream? Adam Skutt <askutt@gmail.com> - 2011-05-31 09:29 -0700
Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:54 -0500
Re: Life is a stream? Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid> - 2011-05-31 20:43 +0100
Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-01 03:22 -0500
Re: Life is a stream? Andy Champ <no.way@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-01 21:53 +0100
Re: Life is a stream? "MikeP" <mp011011@some.org> - 2011-06-06 12:56 -0500
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