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Subject: Re: SUP on sup.freebsd.org 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Nov 1996 00:33:14 +0100."
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 22:54:29 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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