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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:12503 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3289 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!ra.nrl.navy.mil!sundance!cmetz From: cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ??? Date: 10 Aug 1994 21:06:08 GMT Organization: Information Technology Division, Naval Research Laboratory Lines: 26 Message-ID: <32bfg0$sol@ra.nrl.navy.mil> References: <Cu8CBr.Fx@calcite.rhyolite.com> <328d6v$s0p@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <CuACx4.Etu@rex.uokhsc.edu> <CuBw0A.Ayy@calcite.rhyolite.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil In article <CuBw0A.Ayy@calcite.rhyolite.com>, Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote: >> Even for the exercise itself, it is essential to do things over >>in order to see if it can be done better. Sometimes all that is gained in >>such a thing is insight into the problem. Sometimes room for improvement >>is found and the status quo is raised. The only thing that is certain is >>that not doing anything will certainly get you nowhere. > >That's wrong as stated. Only a student, amateur, or incompetent needs >to rewrite code "in order to see if it can be done better," "insight >into the problem," or see what to do to raise the status quo. So, you are advocating never doing anything new? >I used to grumble "4.* BSD is student code while System V is COBOL code." >4.2 and before had a lot of code that would have been better to not have >been written or rewritten, except that writing it presumably trained >people. To the extent that people working on each of FreeBSD, NetBSD, >and Linux are compelled to rewrite without looking at alternatives, you >must expect the results to be at best "student code." So now FreeBSD and NetBSD don't meet your standards, either? Or do new things just not meet your standards? -Craig