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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Subject: Re: UNIX-like approach to software and system architecture
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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:
>
> But I looked through the FreeBSD mailing list archives for djbdns,
> just for fun, and it's clear that while some people like djbdns,
> some are very negative about it -- often for reasons relating to the
> man, rather than the software itself.

Well, some of the reasons that I don't like it are:

  * it's full of magic numbers (about five thousand of them)

  * it contains almost no useful comments

  * it has an impossible licence

Tony.
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