On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 12:37 AM Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-08-04 at 17:36 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 04:06:18AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > ... > > > > > > When I write Free Software, I'm one of those "meh, good enough" guys, > > > although > > > I'd > > > phrase it "Awww Riiight, good enough!". The reason is that perfectionists > > > never > > > finish. > > > > Might this be why we're using linux instead of Hurd? > > I never thought of it, but it's a possible cause of Hurd never taking the > lead. > > One of the very smart things Linus did was to forego the pie-in-the-sky dream > of the > theorists, the microkernel, to do the kernel he could actually get done all by > himself, the regular kernel. > > I'm reminded of Perl6, which in 1999 we all knew was going to take over the > world. > Heck, Sams Publishing offered to have me be the main author of an upcoming > Perl6 > Unleashed. But instead of just fixing a few of Perl 5's biggest problem, they > shot > for the moon, during which time Python and Ruby gladly claimed all of Perl's > mindshare. Today Perl 6 is a language called Raku, and for all I know it's a > great > language, but in the persuit of the perfect at the turn of the century they > gave up > the good, and now Raku is a minor league player.
There is an update to perl5.xx being worked on IIRC. > > When I started the VimOutliner project, instead of writing it from scratch, I > used > Vim as the engine and just added a few scripts. So I was able to create and > release > it in about a week. > > Examples abound: Eric Raymond's fetchmail. Runit, which is so simple I could > maintain it if I had to. The various NetworkManager alternatives that have > sprung up > at Devuan. > > Perfectionists never finish, and the perfect is the enemy of the good. > My motto has been - - - I'll aim for perfection but I will settle for excellence. Insisting on perfection is like statistically asking for 100% or 0% results - - - - impossible and (I'll let you insert your favorite adjective). Regards _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
