On Sat, Aug 13, 2016, at 01:36 PM, Roderick wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > We prefer creating a world that is simpler. That is the practice > > we follow with our bodies of code. > > > > You prefer backwards compat. Fine, that is your choice. You can > > apply that principle in your own code. > > > > Are we finished here? > > It is not so simple. Of course I like simplicity, perhaps more than > you. And more standards than backward compatibility: that is why > I wondered that till now there is no standard. But programming > is always ponderation, in many dimensions. You must decide for example > between (run) time or space (memory), between security, performance > or simplicity. Sure, with absolute goals there is no much to decide and > no > much discussion, and we are finished.
When are you going to realize that there are no such things as standards? They are and always have been a moving target. What is standard today almost certainly will not be in the future.
