On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:20:48PM -0700, brad clawsie wrote: > > Exhibit A: Package managers exist. Exhibit B: Autoconf exists. > > I rest my case. > > no. install the latest copy of ubuntu. look for the autotools. not > there? thats right. somehow debian/unbuntu and derived distros are > capable of installing tens of thousands of packages without nary a > compiler installed. > > > An operating system should have a simple, clear, consistent design. Not > > unlike a certain programming language named after a dead > > mathematition > > unix is indeed largely consistent as originally conceived and executed > through most of its history. simple small tools. everything is a > file. ascii config files. > > > Still, I don't have the skill to write a functioning operating > > system > > writing an operating system in haskell would solve absolutely > nothing. in the end the userland is still a much larger portion of the > codebase, or should we rewrite all of that too?
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind the world of a piece of common sense: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Stefan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
