erik quanstrom wrote:
Would you please start reading posts before replying to them? The
only thing I have proposed is that people stop gratituously creating
programs which treat empty lists exceptionally. If that is what you
mean by the paragraph above then I do try to implement it, and am
quite happy with the results. But I think you mean something else.
You mean that I want to replace cat, rm, chmod etc. by programs which
adhere to this principle. I've said several times that I am not
going to do this and that I think it would break too many things,
including most of my own shell scripts.
i have read every message in this thread. why accuse me
of something you can't possibly know?
i thought you were changing your position. i guess that was
wrong. but can you blame me? this thread goes around in
circles with no possibility of any code being written or results.
i was trying to gently suggest that this thread be
suspended until somebody does something.
- erik
Look at John's initial post on the thread, wherein he gave fair warning of his
intent and his target victim pool.
Took him just one day - despite time-zone differences - to demonstrate he could
do it - smart folks and vacuum-tube-CPU-age argument not withstanding.
Don't blame him.
We played his game.
Bill Hacker
(Fourth Buddhist...)
