From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nevin@eviloverlord.com (Nevin Liber) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 09:36:32 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] What UNIX Artifacts Are Still Missing? In-Reply-To: <20171207151420.3DB5D18C09E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20171207151420.3DB5D18C09E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Larry McVoy > > > an altruistic person trying to make things better. They aren't all > bad. > > I would echo that. During my time on the IESG, I'd say the vast majority of > the people in the IETF really did want to make things better for everyone. > And as someone who has been involved with the C++ standardization effort for the last seven years, let me echo that as well. Most (if not all, as I cannot think of any exceptions to this) of us are involved because we want to make a better language, even if no two of us can agree on what that is. And that most certainly includes the folks that Microsoft sends to the meetings. -- Nevin ":-)" Liber +1-847-691-1404 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: