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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (22008)12/8/1998 1:21:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton  Read Replies (3) of 24154
 
. . . And I sure don't know what on Earth Farber means by the following:

If the developers must use the particular functions, inappropriately placed in what I and others in the field refer to as "the operating system environment" (to distinguish it from what I consider to be an appropriate operating system), because of the manner in which that operating system environment is written or marketed, developers who need to write applications for that so-called "operating system" will, by definition, be forced to use that particular function regardless of whether that developer would prefer to use another software routine or develop a new one.

As I read it, he's saying that, if a developer must use a particular function in the OS, then he must use a particular function in the OS.
Aside from the fact that the sentence (as I understand it) is meaningless, what's to keep a developer from writing a separate function, regardless of what functions the underlying OS makes available?

Please explain this.
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