Re: Netiquet (was LUGs in the Chicago area)
Martin Maney <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:08:52AM -0600, Janine Starykowicz wrote: > Everyone is arguing over what's right/efficient/considerate, but nobody > changed the subject. Threading is a sacred trust, you know. :-) -- To fix that one, I'd have to travel all the way back to the early eighties and convince the BSD design team to improve the diagnostics abilities of the Unix kernel in general, and of select(2) in particular. And while I could certainly do that, I'm worried of the consequences - the BSD vs. System V split might never have happened, Unix would have ruled the world, we'd all be programming in awk++, and Bill Gates would be an obscure patent lawyer that no one had heard of. -- Guido van Rossum -- Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni