Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:27:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why so many steps to build new kernel? Message-ID: <199712101822.NAA13096@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971210100036.27436C-100000@kalypso.cybercom.net>
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Redirected to chat. On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > <RANT> > > Why is it that every time somebody suggests making a script or GUI utility > to automate some boring but necessary UNIX process, all you guys who went > to school with Dennis Richie pop out and start complaining about how the > GUI is the greatest affront to computer science since the invention of the > transistor? Nobody's going to be any worse off if we *add* some new ways > to do things. I sincerely think that some of you are actually opposed to > the proliferation of FreeBSD to people who don't think Emacs is the > greatest app ever written. > > I swear, you all are going to drive me to learn C. > > </RANT> > > Whew, that felt good. :-) > > K.S. > I did not go to school with Dennis Ritchie, and I have never met him. I have no opposition to gui'fying things. I do have an objection to the linux method of building kernels. <holywar>And emacs isn't the greatest program ever written, that would be vi.</holywar> :P -- Jamie Bowden Systems Administrator, iTRiBE.net If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle)
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