Joseph Myers :
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why reposurgeon has to be as
> > large and complex as it is.
>
> And, in the end, it *is* complex software on which you build simple
> scripts. gcc.lift is a simple script, written in the domai
On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why reposurgeon has to be as
> large and complex as it is.
And, in the end, it *is* complex software on which you build simple
scripts. gcc.lift is a simple script, written in the domain-specific
reposurgeon langu
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Segher Boessenkool :
> > And the "simple scripts" argument dismisses the fact that those scripts
> > are built on top of complex software. It just doesn't hold water IMHO.
>
> This is the Unix philosophy though!
I'm now finishing a book in which I have a lot to say about this, insp
