Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Tom Lord]

I've been familiar with Miles for a long time and, for that entire
time, he has always struck me as at the very least, sane.  He
continues to not surprise me in that regard.

Now, from that, you might conclude something about my impression of
the sanity of the viewpoints Miles is responding to.  But I don't wish
to be unkind, so that's all I'll say about that.

-t





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    > Charles Duffy <address@hidden> writes:
    > >> I suspect that many of our users are intimidated by regexes, and
    > >> can barely handle *that*. What on earth are we going to do with the
    > >> political reprocussions of having to tell them that they'll have to
    > >> learn a new language just to configure an archive?
    > >
    > > Think "configuration file syntax" instead of "language", then. There's
    > > presumably no obligation to use "language features" rather than things
    > > one might consider generic "configuration file format" if one doesn't
    > > want to.
    > 
    > Seriously.  I don't think it will be suddenly necessary to write little
    > furth/whatever functions to do everything in tla, it will merely be
    > _possible_[*], and the defaults will be such that the average user
    > doesn't have to.
    > 
    > [*] Or not; it's always possible for furth to just be an internal
    >     implementation detail (like hackerlab)...
    > 
    > -Miles
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said.
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