Re: Core and Not-So Core

[Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>]

On 5/11/05, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 03:15 +1000, Jon Seymour wrote:
> > David, I have nothing whatsoever to do with the Eclipse implementation
> > of SSH, so what exactly is your point?
> 
> That all programmers of _any_ persuasion who want to reimplement the
> world in their own language instead of using existing tools are
> fundamentally brain-damaged.
> 
> I'd say the same if the KDevelop people wanted to rewrite git and ssh in
> C++, too.
> 
> I don't think that's such a childish observation, surely? Piecing
> together tools which do one thing, and do it well, is part of the UNIX
> philosophy.

This might surprise you, but everything in the world is not a unix
command line. Using tools designed for use on a unix command line in a
highly interactive environment like Eclipse would produce an
abominably clunky result.

Presumably you think this is the Unix way.

I have already explained all the pragmatic reasons for doing a GIT
implementation in Java but you are prepared to ignore all of those
reasons. You have ignored all these reasons rather than lift a finger
to compose a well-reasoned rebuttal.

Instead you cling to a dogmatic insistence that GIT respositories only
be accessed via the C toolsets.

David, you are being extremely childish and extremely dogmatic. Why bother?

jon
-- 
homepage: http://www.zeta.org.au/~jon/
blog: http://orwelliantremors.blogspot.com/