I am still waiting to this diff myself. On Tuesday, December 31, 2019, Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote:
> I guess I'm saying in these trying times it is considered disrespectful > to dismiss completely labour-unsupported "ideas", obviously once we accept > the Great Idea the OP will sit down and do all the required work to prove > the cast after the fact. > > Eric Zylstra <ezyls...@mac.com> wrote: > > > Proposing such a huge project without the ability to do it? I may have > been a little disrespectful, but not the first one in the thread. And my > point wasn’t to be disrespectful, but to point out that most proposals > unaccompanied by code and that don’t solve obvious problems don’t seem to > be received very well. Apologies if that wasn’t within bounds. > > > > E > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On Dec 31, 2019, at 3:46 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> > wrote: > > > > > > Isn't it a bit disrespectful to assume someone on misc@ is going to > > > write such a large diff? > > > > > >> Maybe the OP could just go ahead and replace all the Perl code with > Lua and then ask for feedback from the other devs? That is the OpenBSD > way, right? If it really is a great idea, they’d all be really excited. > In any case, it would kill this thread. > > >> > > >> EZ > > >> > > >> > > >> Sent from my iPhone > > >> > > >>>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 1:22 PM, Daniel Corbe <dan...@corbe.net> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> I like where this thread is headed. > > >>> > > >>> To expand on this idea, maybe we should demonstrate how diversity and > > >>> inclusiveness can work in an operating system via language choices. > > >>> Why stop at TCL and LUA? Or even scripting languages in general. > Why > > >>> not Go, Rust, Haskell and Scala too? > > >>> > > >>> Hear me out. We can set up a raffle system so that each winner can > > >>> write their winning tool in their language of choice. All the > > >>> parallel development will even solve the "multi year effort" problem > > >>> that was brought up by the original poster too. Nobody will mind > > >>> having another 8 or 9 languages in the base system, right? > > >>> > > >> > > > >