Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:08:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>, hm@hcs.de, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990626150518.849H-100000@heidi.plazza.it> In-Reply-To: <19990626082801.A67145@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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> On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:20:56PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > But one thing I like is, although FreeBSD *does* try to appease user > > demands, it's controlled by programmers, not users, so if something is > > a technically extemely evil idea, no matter how the masses yell for it, > > it will NOT happen. > > Programmers need documentation too. And they are going to scream like mad if there isn't any. But in the end they start reading the code anyway, even if there is docu, because they don't trust anything but their own eyes and brain. It's all documented in C anyway. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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