From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 4 21:28:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizkidtech.net (r9.bfm.org [208.18.213.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EDD14DDF for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 21:28:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: (from adam@localhost) by whizkidtech.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id XAA00813; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:28:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 23:27:58 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: Nate Williams Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12 Message-ID: <19990604232758.C768@whizkidtech.net> References: <199906040145.CAA04373@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> <199906040223.TAA01897@apollo.backplane.com> <199906041508.JAA27044@mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199906041508.JAA27044@mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 09:08:03AM -0600 Organization: Whiz Kid Technomagic X-URL: http://www.whizkidtech.net/ X-Operating-System: FreeBSD whizkidtech.net 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 09:08:03AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > I know of *NO* programmer who does not delight in completely ripping out > and replacing existing code with code that he has written from scratch. Hmmmm... I am a programmer, and I do not take delight in doing that. Not that I haven't done it, but delight was never my motivation. Reasons were always technical, i.e., to improve the code. I would consider doing it just for the sake of doing it a complete waste of my time. I suppose I `delight' in writing code from scratch, otherwise I would not be doing it for so long. But that is writing original code, not replacing existing work of someone else. So, now you know one. :-) Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message