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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Barry Schwartz |
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<chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> In this field the arguments go round and round, however, and never |
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> change. |
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That's the definition of dogma. |
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Things always keep changing; Linux has little to do with PDP-{7,11} |
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Unix, and it has evolved (and will continue to do so) thanks to |
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developers not thinking that "rules of thumb" hold the universal |
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truth. Which, again, would be dogma. |
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Vertical integration has its merits when you want to bound the |
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integration tests. So it does non-portability when you don't want to |
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conform to the minimum common set of features. So it does binary |
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formats when you care for performance. I could go on, but as I said, I |
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will not rehash the same discussion from gentoo-user and million other |
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places. |
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So, I will finish with this: if you really believe that there are no |
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more new arguments for new paradigms and design principles, and that |
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PDP-11 Unix is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, then |
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go out and find and kill Buddha, please. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |