Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 18:44:57 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pib comments. Message-ID: <199701060814.SAA00493@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <12969.852533091@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 5, 97 10:44:51 pm"
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > I suggest that the Makefiles are a cache already (just a bad one 8), so > > the matter is one of degree, not principle. 8) > > Isn't that's sort of like saying "the haystack is the storage area for > the needle, so the difficulty in finding it is simply a matter of > degree, not principle." :-) Yup, you got it. You could perhaps say that at the moment, with the hay all piled up, the needle is practically impossible to find. With a little reorganisation though (buldoze the hay flat), finding the needle (with a suitable magnet) would be relatively trivial. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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