On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 01:45:04PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:28:34 -0800 > From: John Nemeth <jnem...@cue.bc.ca> > Message-ID: <201812150528.wbf5syhr025...@server.cornerstoneservice.ca> > > | As kre noted, it is probably the oldest network application > | around. According to Wikipedia, the protocol was developed in > | 1969, predating TCP/IP, which means that it is probably the oldest > | TCP/IP application there is. > > That's actually what I meant. I have no idea in which order the BSD > applications were written (nor, for that matter, their original origins.) > > But if there are bugs in any of them (and that is not impossible, just as > with any other software) then we should simply fix them, not just declare > some apps as "too old, abandon it". > > I also simply cannot believe that any issue that might exist in telnet is > going to be any worse than firefox with a http:// URL ... and I do not see > anyone suggesting that firefox (and every other browser) should be > abandoned. > > kre >
A basic telnet client in python (taking into account the library it uses as well) is 800 lines. the netbsd telnet client is 16000 lines, taking into account libtelnet. I literally deleted more lines of telnet than it takes to implement a new line by unifdef'ing dead code. Hope that gives you an indication for how great our code is.
