Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:31:23 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r268566 - head/usr.bin/users Message-ID: <1405179083.91430.14.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <20140712132705.GA45964@FreeBSD.org> References: <201407120747.s6C7lpYE020200@svn.freebsd.org> <20140712195452.N3279@besplex.bde.org> <53C12C1D.8080101@fastmail.net> <20140712132705.GA45964@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 13:27 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > 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 > It is in no way established that any kind of "mess" exists. All we have is some people who appear to hate C++ expressing their opinions about how they hate C++. All the whining about how many more bytes the compiled code is or many milliseconds something takes to compile don't add up to any actual problem. My opinion is that the original commit message was exactly correct: The code was rewritten to be cleaner and easier to understand and maintain. We need more of the same. -- Ian
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