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Can you imagine DJB deliberately teaching how to do something wrong before teaching how to do it right, though?

• dozzie 10y ago
  I can imagine him deliberately writing something wrong before not writing it right (i.e. Qmail).
  • qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    What's so awful about qmail? It's pretty solid, last I checked.
    • dozzie 10y ago
      https://web.archive.org/web/20160409054053/http://www.dt.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160409054053/http://www.dt.e-t...
  • tptacek 10y ago
    Someone who would ding one of the two best MTAs ever written (the other of which inherited its design from qmail's) because of its indentation and variable naming style says more about themselves than about qmail.
    • dozzie 10y ago
      Someone who considers Qmail one of two best MTAs ever says more about themselves than about Qmail. If it was that good, why would it effectively die? Virtually nobody uses Qmail anymore. Not to mention that Qmail is (well, was at some point) one of two biggest sources of wild workarounds in all the other MTAs, the other being MS Exchange. DJB took standards and implemented their subset that suited him.
      • tptacek 10y ago
        I am very comfortable with what qmail appreciation says about me as a programmer.