The UNIX philosophy: if something doesn't work, fix it. The code is
available and commented to a fault.
The DOS philosophy: if something doesn't work, get a new one or make
one yourself. The program DEBUG is a wonderful place to start.
The GCC philosophy: make something do simple little tasks and put it
together in a large program with a now-pointless acronym. Oh, and
give no warranty, and link lots and lots of useless and complicated
libraries, and spend hours finding bugs in a single configure file.
Choose one. Meanwhile, I'll be ed-ding /dev/sdC0/fossil to find all
occurrences of the string "exits" and move them to where they are
just to see ed blow up. (Seriously, you won't get far with ed-ding a
partition - I tried).
On Dec 24, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
On Dec 24, 2007 12:25 AM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
i'd be willing to give it a pass if it whined a bit, but aborting
on user input is a bit antisocial.
"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to move lines
around and back, doing nothing. Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I
don't. Excuse me while I go and abort()."
--Joel
