Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!bu-cs!bzs From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Input Line Editing In the Kernel Message-ID: <23855@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 14 Jul 88 16:13:11 GMT References: <16456@brl-adm.ARPA> <9666@eddie.MIT.EDU> <249@pigs.UUCP> <9676@eddie.MIT.EDU> Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci. Lines: 30 In-reply-to: nessus@wonko.MIT.EDU's message of 14 Jul 88 05:15:50 GMT I think people should restrain themselves from posting their wish lists for software. Too much of it is easily mistaken for sarcasm, or little children insisting there should be Peace on Earth. Anal expulsive, basically. Code, show us code! (what I can't believe is that we all tolerate this sort of drivel but that guy posts the code for ile and *he* gets flamed! I wonder if unix-wizards hasn't sunk beneath redemption, an emotional outlet for software bureaucrats and the Shop till you Drop crowd. Don't tell me there are "appropriate" places to post code, many of us don't distinguish between describing some design wish in english or code, except that the latter is worth looking at as it carries some force of plausibility, it's not the fact that a design argument is written in C (eg), it's whether or not it's pertinent to the issue at hand. I'd far rather see the list "flooded" with code that implements possible designs than masturbatory drivel that usually starts off by presuming PI == 3.0, the earth is flat, man is basically good and other "little" conveniences.) -Barry Shein, Boston University The only thing thing we seem to learn from history is that we do not learn anything from history -- Hegel (roughly paraphrased)