On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:49:40 -0400 Daniel M Gessel <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a hobby software developer, I see the benefit: *nix isn't static, > so simplification is generally "a good thing". More power to those > who use Occam's razor to trim some bloat. One of the more amusing things about this for me is that when I got started in this field there were dozens of different UNIX vendors and each one took their licensed AT&T code and changed things because they could. Gratuitous Vendor Changes. And we *hated* it because we had to resort to all kinds of hackery to make our tools work in heterogeneous environments. And here we have Derek insisting that the mess we've been fighting with for decades is preferable to cleaning up 40+ years of mistakes. -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
