From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 41, Issue 5
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:19:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070925031956.GC12168@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070925031257.GF25048@mercury.ccil.org>
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:12:57PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> > As the guy who started this thread, I'm very grateful for the help.
> > All I wanted was the lint libraries I wrote, those were like include files
> > and it is hard to imagine Sun cares about those (I had to threaten to
> > quit to get them included in the release, back in the day of 200MB disks).
>
> What do you plan to do with them?
Nothing that interesting. I was just passing them on to my team here at
BitMover as an example of a pile of work that was painstaking. And had
to be exactly correct.
I wrote those so that you could develop on SunOS but retarget your code
for any other palatform and have it work. Apparently I cared about that
more than most. I felt strongly at the time that you'd be an idiot to
develop on any other platform, SunOS was way past being the best, it was
without peer. So I felt safe in giving people a way to retarget their
code.
Little did I know that Solaris was waiting in the wings.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com
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2007-09-25 2:36 ` Larry McVoy
2007-09-25 3:12 ` John Cowan
2007-09-25 3:19 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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