From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50712240924u21f50958p6e09de377534e609@mail.gmail.com> References: <20071224041704.GA14349@dinah> <14e680f0d51dc56e123a1847843f33a8@quanstro.net> <7871fcf50712240924u21f50958p6e09de377534e609@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <54700671-A817-4A49-9C21-0939B5D95CD6@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme aborts on a pointless Edit command Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:35:29 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 215fc07e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The UNIX philosophy: if something doesn't work, fix it. The code is available and commented to a fault. The DOS philosophy: if something doesn't work, get a new one or make one yourself. The program DEBUG is a wonderful place to start. The GCC philosophy: make something do simple little tasks and put it together in a large program with a now-pointless acronym. Oh, and give no warranty, and link lots and lots of useless and complicated libraries, and spend hours finding bugs in a single configure file. Choose one. Meanwhile, I'll be ed-ding /dev/sdC0/fossil to find all occurrences of the string "exits" and move them to where they are just to see ed blow up. (Seriously, you won't get far with ed-ding a partition - I tried). On Dec 24, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On Dec 24, 2007 12:25 AM, erik quanstrom > wrote: >> i'd be willing to give it a pass if it whined a bit, but aborting >> on user input is a bit antisocial. > > "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to move lines > around and back, doing nothing. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I > don't. Excuse me while I go and abort()." > > --Joel