Re: Regarding "make"-systems [Was: Re: [dev] Build system: redo]

From: Kurt H Maier <khm-suckless_AT_intma.in>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:27:49 -0400

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:48:22PM +0300, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote:
> P.S.: Everytime I hear "suckless" (or "pythonic", or
> "the-java-way", or "the-unix-way", or "the-<<favorite tool /
> language>>-way"), it makes me thing of a dogmatic priest chanting his
> ritual... And most of the time I have the feeling that people use such
> a phrase when they can't provide a coherent argument, either for or
> against something, but they feel in their guts that they are right and
> thus they must be heard...
>

That's part of the reason I like it. When someone says "that's not
pythonic" they mean "you're not adhering to python dogma." When someone
says "that's not suckless," it literally translates to "that sucks more
than it should." There's no real dogma, it's just a way to identify
shitty solutions to problems.
Received on Fri Aug 10 2012 - 15:27:49 CEST