From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200311162143.hAGLhel18843@augusta.math.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: configure misery In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:32:10 MST." From: Dan Cross Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:43:40 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8b70c5b4-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 andrey mirtchovski 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.