The Linker is not a Magical Program

[Brad Roberts]

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Walter Bright wrote:

> A rant I wrote a few months ago:
> 
> http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/The_Linker_Is_not_a_Magical_Program

>From the outside, no.  From the inside.. I dunno that I can agree.  The 
ability to navigate the maze of half-documented, often 
wrongly-implemented, etc... object file formats and still result in a 
working binary approaches being magic.