Re: We are as good as our tools

2000-09-07 Thread Alexander Viro
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: > Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > [...] > > > BTW, tools are really nice, but I wouldn't call conventional debuggers > > a-la [asg]db good ones. I've been _very_ impressed by Acid - after gdb it > > feels like a switch from MCR to sh. Sm

Re: We are as good as our tools

2000-09-07 Thread Horst von Brand
Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > BTW, tools are really nice, but I wouldn't call conventional debuggers > a-la [asg]db good ones. I've been _very_ impressed by Acid - after gdb it > feels like a switch from MCR to sh. Small core providing a language with > enough primitives to bu

Re: We are as good as our tools

2000-09-06 Thread Alexander Viro
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Stephen Satchell wrote: > In other parts of the Open Source community, people point with pride to the > tools they use to do their work. Let's not forget that Ritchie decided > that he needed a language to speed his development of a quick-n-dirty > operating system using

We are as good as our tools

2000-09-06 Thread Stephen Satchell
At 06:40 PM 9/6/00 -0700, J. Dow wrote: >30 years of experience have proven this to me over and over again from >watching auto mechanics and ditch diggers through every engineering >discipline I have ever paused to observe. Only a damnfool eschews good >tools because of some sense of "pride" that