From: Taj Khattra <taj.khattra@pobox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: configure misery
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:16:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031117231626.GA6427@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311171216.hAHCGrov030115@skeeve.com>
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 02:16:53PM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Yes, mawk is faster, it uses a different internal algorithm (byte codes
> vs. recursive tree evaluation). It is also, sadly, unmaintained; there
> hasn't been a new release since 1996, and it does have a few bugs.
not specific to mawk, and it's unfortunate that whatever bugs it has
haven't been fixed (very often i prefer mawk too, unless i require a
gawk extension :) ), but this touches on another pet peeve of mine wrt
what seems like the current modus operandi: unless you keep releasing
updates to a s/w package every so often, people automatically assume
that it's unmaintained! bug fixes are always welcome, but more often
than not what you end up with is a continuous stream of updates with
dubious "enhancements". there is no fixed-point in sight.
as Lamport might say (in a different context), it's as if program
maintenance is analogous to automobile maintenance, requiring constant
tweaking and "lubricating the branch statements and cleaning the pointers"
(http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#automobile)
-taj
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-17 23:16 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
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 [this message]
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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