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Subject: Re: A Layered Kernel: Proposal
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Richard B. Johnson writes:

[...]

 > 
 > So don't claim that layering does anything useful except
 > to create jobs. It is a make-work technique that creates
 > jobs for inadequate or incompetent programmers.

Interesting that whole notion of layering and separation of concerns was
invented exactly during the design of "THE" OS kernel. By very competent
and adequate programmer.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd01xx/EWD196.PDF

 > 

Nikita.