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Not quite sure what the take-away is here, and whom he is talking to. Good software is good. Well, uh, yeah. Anything else? Write software that people actuall
by fefe23 7y ago
Not quite sure what the take-away is here, and whom he is talking to.
Good software is good. Well, uh, yeah. Anything else?
Write software that people actually want?
Well gosh darn, why didn't I think of that!
Also, GNU grep is not antifragile. I learned that when I upgraded my PCRE to a new major version and suddenly grep failed. grep is used by configure scripts, so without a working grep you can't compile a new grep. To me that is the very opposite of antifragility.
- yingw787 7y agoAuthor here. I’m really curious about your upgrade path for PCRE. Do you have a gist or a runnable available? I don’t think I’ve ever encountered or heard of that happening, would be great to understand intuitively!
- saagarjha 7y ago> Also, GNU grep is not antifragile. I learned that when I upgraded my PCRE to a new major version and suddenly grep failed. grep is used by configure scripts, so without a working grep you can't compile a new grep. To me that is the very opposite of antifragility. Bootstrapping is a very common problem with basic tools.