From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 16:36:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 16:36:27 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:22021 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 May 2001 16:36:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:38:45 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Jonathan Morton Cc: Helge Hafting , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Background to the argument about CML2 design philosophy Message-ID: <20010522163845.B3880@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Jonathan Morton , Helge Hafting , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010518113726.A29617@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20010518114922.C14309@thyrsus.com> <8485.990357599@redhat.com> <20010520111856.C3431@thyrsus.com> <15823.990372866@redhat.com> <20010520114411.A3600@thyrsus.com> <16267.990374170@redhat.com> <20010520131457.A3769@thyrsus.com> <3B08DC75.C466BA66@idb.hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chromi@cyberspace.org on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:32:49PM +0100 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jonathan Morton : > I'm going to assume for now that CML2 saves two files - one storing a > relatively small number of symbols (which is strictly limited to those > explicitly set by the user), and one containing the full set for > consumption by the Makefiles. No, that's not the case. Would it be too much to ask that you learn how the existing language works brfore proposing improvements? -- Eric S. Raymond The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this. -- Albert Einstein, "My First Impression of the U.S.A.", 1921