46 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-currentRe: Bruce vandalism again| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Julian Elischer | Dec 19, 1997 4:29 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Dec 19, 1997 7:26 pm | |
| John-Mark Gurney | Dec 19, 1997 9:50 pm | |
| Bruce Evans | Dec 20, 1997 12:39 am | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 20, 1997 1:03 am | |
| John Birrell | Dec 20, 1997 1:12 am | |
| J Wunsch | Dec 20, 1997 2:23 am | |
| Bruce Evans | Dec 20, 1997 3:39 am | |
| John Birrell | Dec 20, 1997 4:46 am | |
| Nate Williams | Dec 20, 1997 6:18 am | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 20, 1997 6:34 am | |
| Mike Smith | Dec 20, 1997 8:15 am | |
| Mike Smith | Dec 20, 1997 8:20 am | |
| Bruce Evans | Dec 20, 1997 9:01 am | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Dec 20, 1997 10:17 am | |
| Archie Cobbs | Dec 20, 1997 10:26 am | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Dec 20, 1997 10:34 am | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 20, 1997 10:42 am | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 20, 1997 10:45 am | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 20, 1997 10:49 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Dec 20, 1997 11:03 am | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Dec 20, 1997 11:13 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Dec 20, 1997 11:17 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Dec 20, 1997 11:20 am | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 20, 1997 11:20 am | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Dec 20, 1997 11:29 am | |
| Bruce Evans | Dec 20, 1997 11:45 am | |
| Mike Smith | Dec 20, 1997 4:51 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Dec 20, 1997 4:54 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Dec 20, 1997 5:23 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Dec 20, 1997 5:35 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Dec 20, 1997 5:37 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Dec 20, 1997 5:38 pm | |
| Brian Somers | Dec 20, 1997 6:55 pm | |
| J Wunsch | Dec 21, 1997 2:02 am | |
| J Wunsch | Dec 21, 1997 2:04 am | |
| Dmitrij Tejblum | Dec 21, 1997 6:08 am | |
| Greg Lehey | Dec 21, 1997 3:48 pm | |
| Nate Williams | Dec 21, 1997 6:10 pm | |
| Simon Shapiro | Dec 22, 1997 2:59 pm | |
| J Wunsch | Dec 23, 1997 12:02 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Dec 26, 1997 5:03 pm | |
| Mikael Karpberg | Dec 26, 1997 6:42 pm | |
| John S. Dyson | Dec 26, 1997 7:51 pm | |
| Tim Vanderhoek | Dec 26, 1997 8:33 pm | |
| Mikael Karpberg | Dec 26, 1997 9:48 pm |
| Subject: | Re: Bruce vandalism again | |
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| From: | Nate Williams (na...@mt.sri.com) | |
| Date: | Dec 20, 1997 5:23:20 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-current | |
If style(9) is broken, which apparently it is, then it should be fixed. It isn't a religious document, but one that should change with the times.
It's not broken.
So we buck the trend of the Industry? Many/most shops will blow your code away if it isn't ANSI.
Those kind of shops aren't worth dealing with. Many shops will blow your code away if it isn't COBOL either, and they are as relevant to the argument as the above shops.
(Imagine a design review: Why didn't you (another person, not you JKH) declare and instantiate your functions correctly, and default to K&R. Oh right, you are an old programmer, who grew up with K&R; well we don't do that anymore.)
So what? If that's the kind of folks who are doing the design reviews, then they have nothing to say. Those kind of shops are the same ones that brought us 'New Technology', which is a joke in the OS world.
John, I think you're making a big issue about a non-issue. The reason the code in FreeBSD is using K&R style is because it was written before ANSI. It hasn't been modified to ANSI style simply because it hasn't needed to. Tell your design reviewers that the 'old' code is still more robust/effecient and just as functional (if not more) than the 'new' ANSI code, and that changing code to have ANSI functions just to have ANSI functions is simply a waste of time.
Nate