Ex Bibliotheca

The life and times of Zack Weinberg.

Sunday, 15 December 2002

# 8:45 AM

so close and yet so far

$ ls x-* xm-* */x-* */xm-*
alpha/x-vms       i386/xm-djgpp.h    mips/xm-iris5.h
alpha/xm-vms.h    i386/xm-mingw32.h  pa/x-ada
i386/xm-cygwin.h  i386/xm-vsta.h     x-interix

Two years ago there were 249 of these little monsters. Now only nine remain. One day they will all die, oh yes, and then I will tear out the logic that uses them, so that they will never ever ever come back. Alas, that day is not in sight.