[nycbug-talk] fave BSD tips/tricks?

Isaac Levy isaac at diversaform.com
Tue Aug 25 23:21:44 EDT 2009


On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:

> on 8/25/2009 1:00 PM Miles Nordin said the following:
>>>>>>> "jba" == Jerry B Altzman <jbaltz@> writes:

Lively.  You both have strong points- but what's lacking overall is  
context.

To do or not to do ends up a discussion of threat models, computing  
objectives, and constraints- which decide these points in a given  
context quite easily.

I see no fundamental 'right' in either side of the points argued,  
Miles keeps his compiler, and Jerry deletes his.

Good thing nobody has taken rm out of any base UNIX system, (well,  
perhaps some embedded UNIXs cellphone doesn't have ls?!)

Rocket-
.ike





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