On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:28:09PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On 2008-12-31, at 10:23, Joshua Rodman wrote:
> >The BSD people, whose package management system is pathetically  
> >inadequate
> This is a use of "inadequate" that I haven't run into before.

You've never run into "inadequate" meaning that something is not good
enough?  Do you, perhaps, live in a small Amazonian mud hut with no
native English speakers within a thousand miles?

> that implies that it's worse, rather than better, than the system one  
> is advocating.

No, it doesn't imply any comparison at all.

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