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>I guess it proves that the tools aren't everything.

Sort of, it proves that a psychotic mob of minutiae obsessed sufferers of Autism are capable of incredible productivity in spite of anachronistic tooling.

Cf. people that build houses using pre-19th century technology and refuse to use modern plumbing.




Tools are just means to an end. The OpenBSD devs can write better software with punch cards than you can with a modern language. Take your hipsterer-than-thou attitude and shove it.

tl;dr fed the troll.


>The OpenBSD devs can write better software with punch cards than you can with a modern language.

I'm a coder that lives inside of Emacs and m-x shell. What about what I just said would make you believe anything other than that I consider the person to be more important than the tool?


OpenBSD developers are autistic and psychotic?

Fuck off, and die.


Relax, there is no reason to get so worked up about a little trolling. Someone who just two hours ago told us that his favourite tools are emacs and a terminal emulator certainly doesn't have any weight in the anachronistic tool debate.

Most people are unaware of the OpenBSD workflow, and cvs commits are only the final step in it. There is little "active" development done with cvs. It's for the most part used to commit already reviewed patches. Plenty of developers seem to manage their patches with other systems, including git.


>his favourite tools are emacs and a terminal emulator certainly doesn't have any weight in the anachronistic tool debate.

That should've been your hint that I have an admiration for them and their project.


>>it proves that a psychotic mob of minutiae obsessed sufferers of Autism are capable of incredible productivity in spite of anachronistic tooling

>That should've been your hint that I have an admiration for them and their project.

You called the developers a psychotic mob of Autism sufferers. A hint of admiration, you say?


I'm not sure mere mortals can really implement secure cryptosystems.

The only normal/personable coder that could is probably cperciva.

OTOH, you have Theo.

shrugs Point stands.




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