[PRL] Re: "dia" in the gimp?

[Mitchell Wand]

Gregp wrote:

> So in answer to one of my questions: it is not "just syntax", the OS is
> broken because of *semantics*. The OS uses dynamic binding.

Yup.  But that doesn't mean the OS has broken semantics.  I would
claim that some flavor of dynamic binding is *essential*; indeed at
some level that's what operating systems are *about*.

I have a rant to go with this claim, but I don't have time to write it
down right now.

--Mitch