From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 26 6:16:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.skylink.it (ns.skylink.it [194.177.113.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD6414EBF; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 06:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hibma@skylink.it) Received: from heidi.plazza.it (va-165.skylink.it [194.185.55.165]) by ns.skylink.it (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27032; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:15:12 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.plazza.it [127.0.0.1]) by heidi.plazza.it (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA01036; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:08:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:08:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@heidi.plazza.it Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Nik Clayton Cc: Chuck Robey , Greg Lehey , Mike Smith , Mark Newton , hm@hcs.de, Doug Rabson , Peter Wemm , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)) In-Reply-To: <19990626082801.A67145@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:20:56PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > But one thing I like is, although FreeBSD *does* try to appease user > > demands, it's controlled by programmers, not users, so if something is > > a technically extemely evil idea, no matter how the masses yell for it, > > it will NOT happen. > > Programmers need documentation too. And they are going to scream like mad if there isn't any. But in the end they start reading the code anyway, even if there is docu, because they don't trust anything but their own eyes and brain. It's all documented in C anyway. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message