Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:00:33 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SUP on sup.freebsd.org Message-ID: <199611070800.JAA23103@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <25437.847349669@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 6, 96 10:54:29 pm
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In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote:
>
> > 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?"
Hmm, I wasn't tackling John here, I just wanted to know WHY
he had chosen modula3 of all languages, maybe I had missed
something when I was forced to play with it times ago.
On the other hand I also think that we should have some sort
of consensus on how/with what we write the stuff for our
favorit OS, if we span too far, we will have a nightmare in
trying to keep all the pieces together when "important"
people leave the scene.
I guess that these lists cannot be used for discussing anything
not strictly technical, without everybody going ballistic, and
putting all kinds of ill intent into the storyline, *sigh*
End of story.
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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