From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 13 10:40:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56F215364 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 10:40:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA29764; Thu, 13 May 1999 13:03:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:03:47 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brett Glass Cc: Jamie Bowden , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD, GPL, the world today. (fwd) In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.37.19990513095524.04429440@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 13 May 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > Of course, the correct solution to the problem is to build proper tools > for crafting and analyzing code (goodbye, C and C++!) and to train our > programmers in good coding techniques. (Most bugs can be boiled down to the > same dozen or so common programming or architectural mistakes.) Will > it happen? Not the way things are going. But software quality is not > a licensing issue. Open source is, again, one way of attempting to > brute force the problem rather than solving it ab initio. Y'know Brett, I've listened to a lot of what you've had to say, and I've agreed on many points, however by blasting C/C++ you've made a big mistake. I hereby banish you to the wasteland, please make sure you respect the carryon regulations, only 2 items. thank you, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message