[TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

[Greg A. Woods]

At Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:03:07 -0600, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register
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> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 4:50 PM Greg A. Woods <woods at robohack.ca> wrote:
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> > At Tue, 18 Jun 2024 04:52:51 +0000, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> > wrote:
> > Subject: [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix
> > philosophy' The Register
> > >
> > > That's not
> > > to diminish the real help of things like autotools and CMake,
> >
> > Oh, that strikes a nerve.
> >
> > CMake is the very antithesis of a good tool.  It doesn't help.  I think
> > it is perhaps the worst abomination EVER in the world of software tools,
> > and especially amongst software construction tools.
> >
> 
> Someone clearly never used imake...

Heh heh!

I've grovelled deeply in the innards of X11's use of imake, but I assert
that it's atrocities pale in comparison to those of cmake.  At least
there were real parsers and proper syntax for imake, and indeed it even
built on and used other existing well known tools!

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