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> "but it's non-standard!" can be fixed by making it a standard.

But which which do you make standard?

When one says it's non-standard, it normally means that you don't know if the way you are using it will work on other places.



Unix predates POSIX -> All Unix flavors were non standard + your reasoning -> POSIX cannot exist.


Making it standard is a lot of hard work while you make a lot of people argue and act in a way that makes sure that some part of the thing will work everywhere.

Standards exist on the real world, you can't just define them into existence without doing the work.




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