Re: The GNU thing
>
> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > > I think this statement is absolute truth. Linux wouldn't exist without
> > > GCC, but it certainly could without textutils or shellutils and suchlike.
>
> > interesting opinion. Maybe you never tried to "dpkg --purge --force-depends
> > --force-essential" those packages.
>
> So you're saying that the FSF is the only possible source of things like
> ls, rm, mv, etc? And here I thought that the BSD folks had written their
> own. Gosh, the responsibility of being the only folks on the face of the
> earth who are CAPABLE of producing a "make" or a "sed" must be absolutely
> awesome! Where do I go to bow down to their feet?
>
> My point is not that nobody uses those systems, but that anyone with even
> marginal skill can write those programs. GCC is harder to replace.
make is hard to replace
grep is hard to replace
sed is hard to replace
diff is hard to replace
awk is hard to replace
bison is hard to replace
flex is hard to replace
... in the sense that even people with more than marginal skills will
need a lot of time to write it.
By the way, do we really need flame bait to raise traffic in this list?
Peace,
:)
Eric
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E.L. Meijer (tgakem@chem.tue.nl)
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
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