Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:13:30 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, Doug@gorean.org, drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <v04220802b5103469ac6f@[195.238.23.192]> In-Reply-To: <200004042349.TAA78471@blackhelicopters.org> References: <200004042349.TAA78471@blackhelicopters.org>
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At 7:49 PM -0400 2000/4/4, Michael Lucas wrote: > I'd actually suggest that you (plural you, not Brad you) turn this > around. Some very good points. Thank you! > You enjoy code? Cool, pick a PR. I don't think we ever have to worry about my doing any code for this project. I have been quite pointedly told that my recent actions here have ensured that I'll never be allowed to be a committer, and that I'll never, ever work for the company. And you know what? I think I'm actually kind of glad. > True again. But how many modern operating systems actually manage > this? I'm not aware of any. (I could quite well be wrong, I usually > am when making a blanket statement.) Good point, very few OSes do well at this. It's just so frustrating to see FreeBSD do so well in other areas, and then occasionally fall down so miserably in things like this. > I've learned to grok POLA from context as "changing something behind > the scenes that breaks interfaces", but I'm now surrendering to > acronym curiosity: > > What the *heck* does POLA stand for, exactly? Path Of Least Action? I think we need a BSD Jargon File. ;-) I had to do a Google search in order to explain it to someone else. I originally used it just from kinda-semi-sorta-grokking previous uses of this term by Jordan. Anyway, it means "Principle of Least Astonishment", which is actually a phrase I've heard before (and makes a whole lot of sense), but I had never put the two together. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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