Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:42:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mike Porter <> | Subject | Re: Availability of kdb |
| |
> > But in the end, maybe the rule to only use hand power makes sense. Not > > because hand-power is _better_. But because it brings in the kind of > > people who love to work with their hands, who love to _feel_ the wood with > > their fingers, and because of that their holes are not always perfectly > > aligned, not always at the same place. The kind of carpenter that looks at > > the grain of the wood, and allows the grain of the wood to help form the > > finished product. > > > > The kind of carpenter who, in a word, is more than _just_ a carpenter. > > > > [ Insert a silent minute to contemplate the beaty of the world here. ] > > Properly contemplated and I wonder at the hypocrisy of using a compiler > or an assembler instead of carefully hand crafted bits on a blank disk.
Taking his base analogy, it's no different that setting up a shop that uses iron planes, or wood planes, or adzes, or maybe reverting all the way back to simple stone tools. You draw the line somewhere to attact a certain type of person interesting in producing a certain result.
Besides, I assume anyone working on the kernel can get a debugger patch and be running in a few minutes. Or maybe not? I've never downloaded a kernel debugger.
Mike (who likes iron planes, iron chisels and drill presses)
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |