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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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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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