From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 10 10:27:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA05332 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:27:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA05318 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@itribe.net) Message-Id: <199712101822.NAA13096@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:27:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: The Classiest Man Alive cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Redirected to chat. On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > > > Why is it that every time somebody suggests making a script or GUI utility > to automate some boring but necessary UNIX process, all you guys who went > to school with Dennis Richie pop out and start complaining about how the > GUI is the greatest affront to computer science since the invention of the > transistor? Nobody's going to be any worse off if we *add* some new ways > to do things. I sincerely think that some of you are actually opposed to > the proliferation of FreeBSD to people who don't think Emacs is the > greatest app ever written. > > I swear, you all are going to drive me to learn C. > > > > Whew, that felt good. :-) > > K.S. > I did not go to school with Dennis Ritchie, and I have never met him. I have no opposition to gui'fying things. I do have an objection to the linux method of building kernels. And emacs isn't the greatest program ever written, that would be vi. :P -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)