Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756672AbXHSXBk (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:01:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752529AbXHSXBd (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:01:33 -0400 Received: from sidhe.atheme.org ([204.15.224.234]:33204 "EHLO sidhe.atheme.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751188AbXHSXBc (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:01:32 -0400 Message-ID: <46C8CC25.4070807@partiallystapled.com> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:03:01 -0400 From: Michael Tharp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070619) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Perkel CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The vi editor causes brain damage References: <952949.96475.qm@web52503.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <952949.96475.qm@web52503.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 OpenPGP: id=94C1C841 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1684 Lines: 45 Marc Perkel wrote: > The important point that you are missing here is that > the Linux world is willing to live with an rm command > that is broken and the Windows and DOS world isn't. > This isn't about the rm command it's about programming > standards. It's about that the Linux community isn't > committed to getting it right. Thanks man, you've made my day. I haven't laughed this hard at a mildly technical discussion in weeks. > Just like my thinking outside the box thread when I > try to say "this is broken" people don't go fix it. > Instead I get an explanation why Linux isn't capable > of having an rm command that will delete an unlimited > number of files. Calling something that bas been working for decades broken, and offering a vague idea that is not only riddled with usability issues but also unimplementable in an even remotely efficient manner, and yet expecting people to jump into action and write it for you while deprecating an enormous amount of existing code, is something best described as surreal. Disregarding peer review and calling it an "attack" is just icing on the cake. > I bet there are Microsoft people out there laughing at > this. Probably at you. > THINK ABOUT IT PEOPLE !!! > > 20 years, a million programmers, tens of millions of > users and RM is BROKEN. Am I the only one who has a > problem with this? If so - I'm normal - and Linux is a > cult. All hail Linus the great. -- m. tharp - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/