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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: norman@oclsc.org, lm@mcvoy.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SDB debugger
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 01:14:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202005030714.0437E2xv002086@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200503024116.GE9534@mcvoy.com>

Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

> I really don't know how systems people do it these days, it is a
> much more complex world.
>
> ...  these days, I have no idea how I'd make a difference.

By doing something besides systems. There are tons of open source
projects at the user level that make a difference. Consider something
like AsciiDoc.  Less than 10 years old (methinks), and in use for
production by at least one major technical publisher that I know of.
(And it sure beats the pants off of DocBook XML.)

Or the work I do on gawk, Chet on Bash, other GNU bits.

There's a whole world out there besides just the kernel.

Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-03  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-03  2:21 Norman Wilson
2020-05-03  2:41 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-03  7:14   ` arnold [this message]
2020-05-03  3:05 ` Rob Pike
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-05-02  2:52 Doug McIlroy
2020-05-02 17:45 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-03 16:16   ` Rich Morin
2020-05-12  4:36     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-05-01 20:48 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-05-01 21:57 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-02  9:10   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-05-02 16:04     ` Clem Cole
2020-05-01 23:05 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2020-05-02  0:49 ` Noel Hunt
2020-05-02  1:22   ` Rob Pike
2020-05-02  3:49     ` Noel Hunt
2020-05-02 20:16   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-05-03  6:58     ` arnold
2020-05-03 16:13     ` Clem Cole
2020-05-03 16:53       ` Henry Bent
2020-05-03 17:06         ` Henry Bent
2020-05-03 17:13       ` Henry Bent
2020-05-03 20:26         ` Clem Cole
2020-05-03 17:35       ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-03 21:27       ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-05-12  4:15 ` Dave Horsfall

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