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Re: question about systemd



On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:16:05 -0400
Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:

> Reco wrote:
> >   Hi.
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:11:57 +0100
> > Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat 11 Oct 2014 at 13:00:12 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> >>
> >>> I fear that we are living the axiom, "Those who do not understand UNIX
> >>> are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
> >> That is a misquote. Understandable when it is all over the web and comes
> >> up with a search engine, so don't worry about it. It should be
> >>
> >>    "Those who do not understand systemd are condemned to reinvent
> >>     it, poorly."
> > You misquote it too. An original quote was:
> >
> > "Those who do not understand Solaris SMF are condemned to reinvent it,
> > with systemd, poorly."
> >
> 
> I believe the original is "Those who don't know LISP are bound to 
> reinvent it, poorly."
> 
> Systemd, written in LISP - now that might be interesting!

One must be *very* careful to wish for - [1]. OK, that's not pure LISP,
it's Scheme :)

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/

Reco


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