I guess I'm saying in these trying times it is considered disrespectful to dismiss completely labour-unsupported "ideas", obviously once we accept the Great Idea the OP will sit down and do all the required work to prove the cast after the fact.
Eric Zylstra <ezyls...@mac.com> wrote: > Proposing such a huge project without the ability to do it? I may have been > a little disrespectful, but not the first one in the thread. And my point > wasn’t to be disrespectful, but to point out that most proposals > unaccompanied by code and that don’t solve obvious problems don’t seem to be > received very well. Apologies if that wasn’t within bounds. > > E > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Dec 31, 2019, at 3:46 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org> wrote: > > > > Isn't it a bit disrespectful to assume someone on misc@ is going to > > write such a large diff? > > > >> Maybe the OP could just go ahead and replace all the Perl code with Lua > >> and then ask for feedback from the other devs? That is the OpenBSD way, > >> right? If it really is a great idea, they’d all be really excited. In > >> any case, it would kill this thread. > >> > >> EZ > >> > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >>>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 1:22 PM, Daniel Corbe <dan...@corbe.net> wrote: > >>> > >>> I like where this thread is headed. > >>> > >>> To expand on this idea, maybe we should demonstrate how diversity and > >>> inclusiveness can work in an operating system via language choices. > >>> Why stop at TCL and LUA? Or even scripting languages in general. Why > >>> not Go, Rust, Haskell and Scala too? > >>> > >>> Hear me out. We can set up a raffle system so that each winner can > >>> write their winning tool in their language of choice. All the > >>> parallel development will even solve the "multi year effort" problem > >>> that was brought up by the original poster too. Nobody will mind > >>> having another 8 or 9 languages in the base system, right? > >>> > >> >
