From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 13:27:05 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 15286CCB; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:27:05 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Bruce Simpson Subject: Re: svn commit: r268566 - head/usr.bin/users Message-ID: <20140712132705.GA45964@FreeBSD.org> References: <201407120747.s6C7lpYE020200@svn.freebsd.org> <20140712195452.N3279@besplex.bde.org> <53C12C1D.8080101@fastmail.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53C12C1D.8080101@fastmail.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, David Chisnall , Bruce Evans X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:27:05 -0000 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