On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:38:01 -0500 M Farkas-Dyck <strake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You clearly deem a shell an acceptable technical cost, tho itself not > a simple program. C compilers and OS kernels are yet other technical > costs. I use all these programs as they give me a uniform common > interface to launching and connecting programs, machine code > generation for various architectures, and the machine itself. > > Losses arise when components cause more grief than they're worth. Make > itself is easy to build and use. GNU autoshit ain't; its mental costs > due to nonuniform interfaces and other faults are too great. The term "mental costs" is a very creative way to describe the issue. Thanks for expressing it, I couldn't have put it better! Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
