Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:27:05 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> Subject: Re: svn commit: r268566 - head/usr.bin/users Message-ID: <20140712132705.GA45964@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <53C12C1D.8080101@fastmail.net> References: <201407120747.s6C7lpYE020200@svn.freebsd.org> <20140712195452.N3279@besplex.bde.org> <53C12C1D.8080101@fastmail.net>
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On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 01:37:49PM +0100, Bruce Simpson wrote: > On 12/07/2014 12:34, Bruce Evans wrote: > >This joke is bad. The C++ version is worse in every way. > > I concur with everything you have said in your message. Moral of story: it > is very, very easy to introduce bloat using C++, and using a higher level > language does not automatically lead to better code quality. +1. Now the question is, how do we come out of this mess? Shall we redo it in C again? Polish C++ version? Merge it with w(1) as suggested? ./danfe
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