The Unix Haters' Handbook

[John Floren]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:20 AM, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
> At 01:20 AM 4/8/2008, der Mouse wrote:
>  >I do.  But then, I wrote both the tar implementation I use and its
>  >manpage, so perhaps that's cheating. :)  (Actually, the manpage is
>  >somewhat out of date; I doubt I've updated it since the last round of
>  >changes to the code....)
>
>  I think you started out trying to prove a point, but you proved another.
>
>  Is that what they call an "own goal"?
>
>  - John
>

The point is that the GNU tools are so crappy, he was forced to write
his own. How does that reflect on the work of Mr. Stallman, a LispM
fanatic? For the brainchild of an old-time Lisp hacker, GNU has sure
become inelegant and disgusting.


John
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