From: Jon Seymour Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:36:29 GMT Subject: Re: Core and Not-So Core Message-ID: <2cfc4032050510103664ebef28@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1115745912.16187.468.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> On 5/11/05, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 03:15 +1000, Jon Seymour wrote: > > David, I have nothing whatsoever to do with the Eclipse implementation > > of SSH, so what exactly is your point? > > That all programmers of _any_ persuasion who want to reimplement the > world in their own language instead of using existing tools are > fundamentally brain-damaged. > > I'd say the same if the KDevelop people wanted to rewrite git and ssh in > C++, too. > > I don't think that's such a childish observation, surely? Piecing > together tools which do one thing, and do it well, is part of the UNIX > philosophy. This might surprise you, but everything in the world is not a unix command line. Using tools designed for use on a unix command line in a highly interactive environment like Eclipse would produce an abominably clunky result. Presumably you think this is the Unix way. I have already explained all the pragmatic reasons for doing a GIT implementation in Java but you are prepared to ignore all of those reasons. You have ignored all these reasons rather than lift a finger to compose a well-reasoned rebuttal. Instead you cling to a dogmatic insistence that GIT respositories only be accessed via the C toolsets. David, you are being extremely childish and extremely dogmatic. Why bother? jon -- homepage: http://www.zeta.org.au/~jon/ blog: http://orwelliantremors.blogspot.com/