From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 2 12: 5:38 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F6637B57D; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:05:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01017; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 21:05:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Steve Ames Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Mark Murray , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/isc-dhcp - Imported sources In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 2000 13:55:41 CDT." <20000702135541.A17379@virtual-voodoo.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 21:05:05 +0200 Message-ID: <1015.962564705@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 agree. >I've wondered for a while... what is POLA? Principle of Least Astonishment. Coined by Terry Lambert in 1993 or so. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message