arch, was Re: SourceForge has drifted away

MJ Ray markj at cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Aug 14 23:23:38 UTC 2002


Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> [...] his own C library 

OK, digging around, I find that you actually mean a libc competitor. 
Curious decision, to understate it, but at least he puts his reasons
forwards.  On the plus side, it does contain different features to libc, but
I don't really understand why it's a fatal problem.  Maybe I will...

> and far too many shell skripts.

This still seems like language snobbery, though.  Some of my most-used
programs are shell scripts...

Onwards!

MJR




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