From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 14 09:26:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19575 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:26:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles215.castles.com [208.214.165.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19566 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12980; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:24:55 GMT (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199808140924.JAA12980@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brett Glass cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64-bit time_t In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 05:15:20 CST." <199808141115.FAA21672@lariat.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:24:54 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 11:25 PM 8/13/98 +0000, Mike Smith wrote: > > >Funny, that's what Unix is. A big box full of tools. > > Many of which, due to legacy code, are redundant and cause > unnecessary bloat and confusion. Nice sweeping statement there. Not really accurate either. > >Pick the right one for the job, and you'll bruise much less often. > > Make one more generally useful, and you won't have to root around > hunting for the one (of dozens) that's exactly right. This is the attitude that leads to the condition that you lambasted in your previous statement. You can't have it both ways. > It's amazing the excuses people will make not to update their tools! > I suppose this is why so much is still written in C, which is > generally acknowledged to be a rusty tool without safety guards. No, so much stuff is written in C because it's a good tool for the job. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message