From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 28 10:43:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22958 for current-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:43:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22883 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:43:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA02133; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:40:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA05323; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:40:27 -0700 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:40:27 -0700 Message-Id: <199801281840.LAA05323@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Russell L. Carter" Cc: Nate Williams , shimon@simon-shapiro.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu/usr.bin/cvs/libdiff In-Reply-To: <199801281834.LAA27643@dnstoo.consys.com> References: <199801281820.LAA05134@mt.sri.com> <199801281834.LAA27643@dnstoo.consys.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > familiar to pure software engineers. As far as a product goes, > an operating system is peanuts compared to something like > a ship, say. Or even a car, these days. Somehow, those get > built. W/out any user intevention? Amazing how it requires users to build them, isn't it? Yes, it *could* all be automated, but the 'resources' required to do it is greater than requiring humans doing the work. Now, in a weird twist of fate, that is exactly the same thing I said. Nate ps. Yes, given enough time and resources, anything can be automated. But, the end result may be more expensive than is worthwhile. Now, I wouldn't have any ideas on that given that I work for one of the three largest R&D companies in the world, who come up with all sort of wonderful (and often times quite expensive) solutions to existing and some non-existant problems. :)