Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 13:54:06 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting quote from Bill Joy Message-ID: <20010528135406.A56165@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20010528191301.A12149@messiah.megadeb.org>; from chopra@runbox.com on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:13:01PM %2B0200 References: <20010528191301.A12149@messiah.megadeb.org>
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If you asked anyone about any major project that they've worked on, they'd say something similar. And Joy worked on BSD *how* long ago -- fifteen years ago or so? I look at some of the books I did back in 1992 and think "You know, if I knew then what I know now..." I can't bear to look at my work from 1986. It's actively painful. In 2011, I fully expect to look back on the BSD book I'm writing now and say, "Oh, how ignorant and clumsy I was then..." I think that if someone can't say the same thing, they aren't growing. And that's just sad. ==ml On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:13:01PM +0200, Munish Chopra wrote: > "If I had to rewrite Unix from scratch, I could do it in a summer, > easily," says Joy. "And it would be much better. A much, much better > job. The ideas are old." > > The above is a quote from a Salon article > (http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/index.html), > run about a year ago. This one has amused me over the past year several > times - is he just blowing steam (I think the article rather politely > says he always had a big mouth, and still does), or has he since made > some more comments in this direction? > > The article is quite interesting by the way (that is unless you've been > BSD for a long time already). > > -- > -Munish > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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