From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 1 16:53: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F038E14DD0 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.2) id AAA76586; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:09:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:09:09 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Stan Shkolnyy Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)) Message-ID: <19990702000909.A75558@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990630210102.A72675@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Stan Shkolnyy on Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:02:06PM -0500 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:02:06PM -0500, Stan Shkolnyy wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > > Sorry it's taken me a while to reply to this; ironically, most of my time > > has been spent on freebsd-doc recently. > > > > On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:03:59PM -0500, Constantine Shkolny wrote: > > > I've come to understanding that lack of documentation is probably one of > > > the factors that keep the system healthy, > > > > I've just spent five minutes trying to phrase a reply to this that manages > > to convey my complete disagreement without resorting to profanity. > > But why did you do that? Basically, I wanted to make sure my disagreement got on record somewhere, so that if anyone trawls the mailing lists at some point in the future and sees your comments, hopefully they'll also see my reply. I know your original comment was intended at least half in jest. But there'll be people who see it and take it the wrong way -- either by assuming that FreeBSD's attitude is too elitist, or that their efforts at documentation won't be welcome, and so on. N PS: Also, there's the considerable thrill of using naughty words. . . -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message