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I haven't found a single mention about him not being a good developer. Do we have any references?
by stargazer83 15y ago
I haven't found a single mention about him not being a good developer. Do we have any references?
- mgedmin 15y agoHave you ever seen the fetchmail source code?
- pja 15y agoMy brain is still trying to recover from that particular experience.
- geoka9 15y agoWhy, what's wrong with it?
- gonzo 15y agohttp://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archive/2001/freebsd-arch/20010218.freebsd-arch http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archiv... http://www.fetchmail.info/design-notes.html http://www.fetchmail.info/design-notes.html
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- 16s 15y agoDidn't he take that over from someone else? Edit: Yes, it was written by a guy named Carl Harris and ESR took it over when Harris no longer wished to maintain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetchmail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetchmail
- statictype 15y agoWell, there's this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923775 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923775 But my point was not so much that he's a bad developer but that his software resume is not as impressive as those he compares himself to.