From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 7:17:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E9F714E06; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 07:17:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id XAA27361; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:17:14 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <379DBE1D.7E131B38@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:11:41 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Soren Schmidt , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing grep(1) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > Geez, why don't we just write our own compiler and linker, assembler, > and everything? Let's get every last bit of GNU out of our system, for > no reason! This kind of NIH is not necessary, and only hurts us by > misdirecting our energies. > > > Seriously, I'd love for this to happen. Most GNU software is a hopeless, > gruesome mess that should be dragged out and shot. Getting rid of as > much as possible, gradually, is a Very Good Thing; this is how we get > stability and performance improvements. In fact, I think the *greatest* advantage of this code is it's readability. Anyway, both versions exist, so it's not a question of NIH. It's a question of choosing. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Is it true that you're a millionaire's son who never worked a day in your life?" "Yeah, I guess so." "Lemme tell you, son, you ain't missed a thing." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message