Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:07:35 -0400
Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 09/15/2014 03:31 AM, saint@eng.it wrote:
> > Bartosz Olender writes:
> > > Therefore I want to poke my three cents into this discussion
> > > reminding that "GNU is *Not* Unix"
> >
> > May I recall that most of the systemd-haters knows the recursive
> > expansion of GNU?
> >
>
> Most of us are no interested in what Stallman or whoever created back
> in 1995. We don't think of Linux as GNU. Linux is much more Unix than
> anything else. And it certainly is _not_ what GNU was back then.
>
> I don't like to get involved in this dumb tirade, but the GNU business
> grates on me!
>
It's all irrelevant. Bad programming practice is bad programming
practice, wherever and however it occurs. Bad programming practice can
be acceptable if it brings benefits large enough to outweigh the
badness.
--
Joe
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