Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:02:57 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/isc-dhcp - Imported sources Message-ID: <200007021902.NAA59753@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:55:41 CDT." <20000702135541.A17379@virtual-voodoo.com> References: <20000702135541.A17379@virtual-voodoo.com> <395F81C1.BAA1F5D0@vangelderen.org> <200007021805.UAA22876@grimreaper.grondar.za> <395F8805.F8725D30@vangelderen.org>
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In message <20000702135541.A17379@virtual-voodoo.com> Steve Ames writes: : On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 02:20:53PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: : > Can we agree to drop the 'traditionally' as a last resort : > argument to justify inertia? Compatibility, POLA, bloat, : > creeping featurism, etc. will do fine. : : I've wondered for a while... what is POLA? Principle of Least Astonishment. Do what most people likely expect. As the expoential growth of the userbase continues, POLA tends to dictate be more like linux, as that's what more and more people expect :-(. That's why I sometimes resort to the "traditional" argument. Which could be read as a compatibility with previous releases :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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