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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: configure misery
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:43:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311162143.hAGLhel18843@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:32:10 MST." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311161231100.6550-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>

andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> writes:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > Also, FreeBSD has reverted to BWK awk for /usr/bin/awk.
>
> The BSD's would like to be completely free of all GNU software for pretty
> much the same reasons people bash it on this list. Just ask Theo :)

The thing is, the BSD source code isn't that much better than the GNU
stuff, especially now.  It seems to be growing without bound.

Maybe Theo et al would be more productive if they quit complaining and
actually set to work on some of the things they find so irksome.  For
instance, there's a BSD licensed compiler out there, and it's existed
for years; why haven't they switched to it?  All the energy they put
into reinventing the square wheel could be put into building new
backends for TenDRA, and getting it to generate correct code for their
build target.

	- Dan C.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-16 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-16  8:04 Aharon Robbins
2003-11-16  8:37 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-11-16 14:46   ` Charles Forsyth
2003-11-16  9:53 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-11-16 19:11 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-11-16 19:32   ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-11-16 21:43     ` Dan Cross [this message]
2003-11-16 23:37       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-11-17  0:04         ` mirtchov
2003-11-17  0:04           ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-17  3:18         ` Dan Cross
2003-11-17  3:28           ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-16 21:46     ` Russ Cox
2003-11-16 22:24       ` mirtchov
2003-11-16 22:47         ` Russ Cox
2003-11-17  0:38         ` Mike Haertel
2003-11-16 22:38       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-11-16 22:41         ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-18 12:54         ` Aharon Robbins
2003-11-18 14:11           ` Russ Cox
2003-11-18 14:55             ` Joel Salomon
2003-11-17  0:24       ` Enache Adrian
2003-11-17 12:16         ` Aharon Robbins
2003-11-17 23:16           ` Taj Khattra
2003-11-16 19:58   ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-17  0:30     ` [9fans] mmap (was configure misery) Geoff Collyer
2003-11-17  0:29       ` boyd, rounin
2003-11-17 12:25   ` [9fans] Re: configure misery Aharon Robbins
2003-11-17  0:42 ` John Stalker
2003-11-17 12:28   ` Aharon Robbins
2003-11-17 12:42     ` Lucio De Re
2003-11-17 12:53       ` Lucio De Re
2003-11-17 13:43         ` Aharon Robbins
2003-11-17 15:06           ` mirtchov
2003-11-17 15:35           ` David Presotto
2003-11-17 16:31       ` John Stalker
2003-11-17 17:19         ` Aharon Robbins
2004-01-30 15:30 [9fans] Re: [hangar18-general] Frustration Jim Choate
2004-02-03 17:11 ` [9fans] Re: configure misery rog
2004-02-04 16:48   ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03  3:49 Li Yi
2004-02-03 11:30 ` Aharon Robbins
2004-02-03 13:32   ` a
2004-02-03 15:34     ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 16:29       ` a
2004-02-03 14:18   ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-03 15:36     ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 16:32       ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-03 16:42         ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 23:53       ` David Presotto
2004-02-04  8:13     ` Aharon Robbins
2004-02-03 15:33   ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 16:27     ` a
2004-02-03 16:44       ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 16:53         ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-04 16:45           ` Jim Choate
2004-02-03 17:01         ` Wes Kussmaul
2004-02-04 17:47 Spamm Trapp

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