From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60603251159u29f22714ue8924c5f03f9c5eb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:59:49 -0800 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4ff9843e5f6fd136c01c5d3e6711c61a@swtch.com> <3e1162e60603251148x17b45d1cy5b2772e2413eb941@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2116c114-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/25/06, Burton Samograd wrote: > > > - compiler suite is 3,000 lines smaller > > > > no no no... when you change code you're supposed to add more code. > > Aren't you paying attention to the way software development apparently > > works? :) > > I wish more software was written that way. I always try to compress > and minimize my projects, of course it takes me forever to do > anything, so it's not really productive (or doesn't show off your > productivity to the managers) if software is your business (which I > guess is why it's not mine, full time, anymore :). > Yeah, this is where the right way to do things and then the way to write commercial software seem to diverge, at least according to what matters to the people who sign paychecks. The rumors about Vista being 60% rewritten are interesting. I hope Microsoft really gets it together, not that I'm a huge fan of their stuff in the past (Though I must say Windows 2000 and even XP Pro were surprisingly stable and better compared to Windows 98/ME :))