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Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:04:02 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>
>> I've not looked at systemd too closely, but AFAICS, the problem is not
>> child-diseases, but more that it's not enough unixy.
>
> It's like an echo.  I keep reading this same opinion.
>
> 1. I don't know much about it
> 2. It's bad.
>
> Spend a little time appreciating the simplicity of systemd
> and then reach your conclusion.  In my opinion, the  design is
> good and it takes a whole bunch of disorganized shell scripts
> and turns them into data.  I nice simple, readable data structure.

Notice that you're the first one I read expressing this judgement about
systemd.  It's certainly encouraging to have a closer look at it.


> Is it "unixy"?
>
> As if that word meant something, I'd  say yes.
> It's just the right amount of code to solve  the problem.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                 http://www.informatimago.com/
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a
dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to
keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk


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