Yo Ian! On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:41:05 -0500 Ian Bruene via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:
> So why haven't the skeletons been fixed in all this time? The only
> reasons I can see are Write Once Forget Forever, and unwillingness to
> use more modern features that not all projects are able to use (which
> could be an option switch).
Willingness implies thought. A lot of UNIX code is from a time
before history. Only the oldest of old necromancers even know this
stuff exists, much less how to fix it.
Even when Yacc (Bison) was new and cool, only a few nerds knew what to
do with it.
In a perfect world someone rewrites ntp_parser.tab.c in a modern
language.
RGDS
GARY
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