GNU Software lowtech? (Was Re: LPF boycott of Apple)

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From: Ajay Shah
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1991 23:49

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In article <3NOV199113581633@minnie.me.udel.edu>, johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
>In article <226@news.duke.edu>, magidj@cellbio.duke.edu (Jonathan Magid) write
>>we want people to originate *new* things, not spend their time 
>>innovating things that have already been done...
>This is exactly what GNU does not do.  It spends most of its 
>time reinventing programs that have been around for years.
>gawk, gcc, ghostscript ...

To be fair, GNU software is very often far better than industry
alternatives.

Sun writes a fine OS, but gawk is 3-4 times faster than Sun's
nawk.  gawk is also more scrupulous about implementing
functionality described in the A,W,K book.

flex is better than lex (more functionality, faster generated
code).

bison is very neat, relative to yacc, but I haven't used it a lot yet.

emacs is (of course) the best editor written by Man.

I could come up with several more examples...
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Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
                             The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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