Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 22:54:29 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: SUP on sup.freebsd.org Message-ID: <25437.847349669@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Nov 1996 00:33:14 %2B0100." <199611062333.AAA24345@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> Well, so even if there were only CVSup, from the reputation this tools > has already got during its fairly short public lifetime: you've got > the best counterexample, i'd say. ;-) I also think it's incredibly bad form to tackle someone over his choice of implementation language *after the fact*, when it's likely to do nothing more than raise ill feelings to no good purpose. What's John supposed to do, say "Hey, gosh, you know, I just didn't think of that before. Write it in C. D'oh! What was I thinking? I'll be back in a couple of months, I'm just going to rewrite CVSup from scratch now, OK?" Clearly not, so hassling him about it is a zero-productivity activity. Moreso, it's not even fair. He wrote this in Modula-3 because he *wanted* to, and sometimes how you write something is at least as important as what you write. He wanted to do a large project in Modula-3, so he did, and he learned something from the experience - the rest of us getting a nifty-as-heck tool to use in the process. What's everybody's problem? All this carping over it is clearly out of line. Say "thanks, John!" not "why the %&*@! did you pick Modula-3, John!" Thank you. Jordan
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