From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 28 14:09:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA04181 for current-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:09:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ppp1682.on.bellglobal.com (ppp1708.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03139 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:06:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp1682.on.bellglobal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA01442; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:03:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ppp1682.on.bellglobal.com: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 14:03:49 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@ppp1682.on.bellglobal.com Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Nate Williams cc: "Russell L. Carter" , shimon@simon-shapiro.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu/usr.bin/cvs/libdiff In-Reply-To: <199801281840.LAA05323@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > 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. Heh. Workers on a factory line are not users building their cars. They are machines who just happen to have an advantageous dexterity : cost ratio, as opposed to users who "understand the build process". -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster.