On 17/06/06 16:27 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote: > Sometime Today, DB cobbled together some glyphs to say: > > >And Microsoft definitely made the computing world less reliable. Blue > >screens of death? > > And what's the largest piece of code that you've written? > Written as a single app, about 80K lines of Perl code.
Joined together into a single complex system, and maintained it? LDAP, DHCP, Samba, IMAP (Cyrus, UW), Sendmail, Postfix, amavis, clamav, FTP (Proftpd, WU), httpd, RADIUS, a RDBMS, a backup system, custom Java, PHP and Perl applications, Tomcat, Cisco switches and routers, CMTS, remote access servers, DNS, webcaches. > True that given enough eyeballs, all BSoDs would be eliminated, but as > Raymond says, somethings should be opensourced and others needn't be. > Which has absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft's code failures. I am sure those engineers at IBM have something to say about that. Or the people running HP's big iron, or Sun, or ... Of course, MS not understanding simplicity is a well known issue. To quote Henry Spencer, those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. At least Apple simple used the BSD base directly. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
