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Date:      Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:27:05 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r268566 - head/usr.bin/users
Message-ID:  <20140712132705.GA45964@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <53C12C1D.8080101@fastmail.net>
References:  <201407120747.s6C7lpYE020200@svn.freebsd.org> <20140712195452.N3279@besplex.bde.org> <53C12C1D.8080101@fastmail.net>

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On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 01:37:49PM +0100, Bruce Simpson wrote:
> On 12/07/2014 12:34, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >This joke is bad.  The C++ version is worse in every way.
> 
> I concur with everything you have said in your message. Moral of story: it
> is very, very easy to introduce bloat using C++, and using a higher level
> language does not automatically lead to better code quality.

+1.  Now the question is, how do we come out of this mess?  Shall we redo
it in C again?  Polish C++ version?  Merge it with w(1) as suggested?

./danfe



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