On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:02:10 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------s8tUpr0M54E8X0ltYkQwh4uy > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sigh. > On 2023-01-23 07:40, zeurkous@blaatscaahp.org wrote: >> (In fact, me'd even argue that UNIX could use a "lessons-learned" >> rewrite altogether. But that's once again beyond our purview.) >> >> --zeurkous. > You've read 'the cathedral and the bazaar' of course.  Yes, *many* moons ago. It is a remarkable work of apologism (a not unknown feature of many of esr's writings), and as such rightfully did not influence me opinion all that much. --zeurkous. > If I were a > gazilionaire I'd pay some hotshots to rewrite the whole thing from the > bedrock up -- build a cathedral.  Same with zsh -- pay the devs to > really get things right.  Think Haussmann redoing Paris. > --------------s8tUpr0M54E8X0ltYkQwh4uy > Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > > > > >


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On 2023-01-23 07:40, > zeurkous@blaatscaahp.org wrote:
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> You've read 'the cathedral and the bazaar' of course.  If I were a > gazilionaire I'd pay some hotshots to rewrite the whole thing from > the bedrock up -- build a cathedral.  Same with zsh -- pay the devs > to really get things right.  Think class="js-about-item-abstr">Haussmann redoing Paris. 
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