From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:09:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140803170957.GC27404@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140803164852.2484618C0C2@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Noel Chiappa scripsit:
> I just gave several good reasons why large programs (well, technically,
> systems) are bad. Are you saying those reasons are fallacious?
No, they are simply costs. Like all costs, the idea is not to eliminate
them tout court, but to decide whether they are worth paying for what
you get. Poverty can have a very high marginal cost.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
"Hacking is the true football." --F.W. Campbell (1863) in response to a
successful attempt to ban shin-kicking from soccer. Today, it's biting.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-03 16:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-03 17:09 ` John Cowan [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-06 22:24 Norman Wilson
2014-08-06 22:19 Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 20:21 Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 22:24 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-05 2:41 ` Andy Kosela
2014-08-05 3:32 ` Warner Losh
2014-08-04 2:54 Norman Wilson
2014-08-04 3:11 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-04 7:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-04 9:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-03 11:49 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-03 12:14 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-03 16:26 ` John Cowan
2014-08-04 13:59 ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-08-04 14:53 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-03 0:48 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-03 8:00 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-02 21:18 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-02 23:44 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-02 16:47 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-02 18:51 ` Ian King
2014-08-02 14:28 Doug McIlroy
2014-08-02 14:00 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-02 15:51 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-08-02 16:07 ` John Cowan
2014-08-02 17:28 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2014-08-02 19:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-02 16:04 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2014-08-02 16:03 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-02 19:36 ` Dave Horsfall
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