On Dec 15, 7:46pm, m...@netbsd.org wrote: } On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 01:45:04PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: } > Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:28:34 -0800 } > From: John Nemeth <jnem...@cue.bc.ca> } > Message-ID: <201812150528.wbf5syhr025...@server.cornerstoneservice.ca> } > } > | As kre noted, it is probably the oldest network application } > | around. According to Wikipedia, the protocol was developed in } > | 1969, predating TCP/IP, which means that it is probably the oldest } > | TCP/IP application there is. } > } > That's actually what I meant. I have no idea in which order the BSD } > applications were written (nor, for that matter, their original origins.) } > } > But if there are bugs in any of them (and that is not impossible, just as } > with any other software) then we should simply fix them, not just declare } > some apps as "too old, abandon it". } > } > I also simply cannot believe that any issue that might exist in telnet is } > going to be any worse than firefox with a http:// URL ... and I do not see } > anyone suggesting that firefox (and every other browser) should be } > abandoned. } } A basic telnet client in python (taking into account the library it uses } as well) is 800 lines. } the netbsd telnet client is 16000 lines, taking into account libtelnet.
This tells me that the python one likely doesn't speak the telnet protocol and therefore isn't a telnet client at all. } I literally deleted more lines of telnet than it takes to implement a } new line by unifdef'ing dead code. } } Hope that gives you an indication for how great our code is. These statements tell me absolutely nothing. }-- End of excerpt from m...@netbsd.org