From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:05:42 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <873891sgaw.fsf@debian.uxu> <87oarp9sk4.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417327826 19297 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2014 06:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 06:10:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 07:10:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xuxi7-00074Z-DN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 07:10:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49704 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xuxi6-0000ew-Lt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:10:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="61a1e09a5dd16679b5767d77eb99504d"; logging-data="30616"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+6cxXLGLvN2DLOYC7GlR+UXdqo2B8Q0x8=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:a5Of+XDp2F8A9V0dea7joJSJQik= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209030 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101309 Archived-At: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: > I've not looked at systemd too closely, but AFAICS, the problem is not > child-diseases, but more that it's not enough unixy. It's like an echo. I keep reading this same opinion. 1. I don't know much about it 2. It's bad. Spend a little time appreciating the simplicity of systemd and then reach your conclusion. In my opinion, the design is good and it takes a whole bunch of disorganized shell scripts and turns them into data. I nice simple, readable data structure. Is it "unixy"? As if that word meant something, I'd say yes. It's just the right amount of code to solve the problem. -- Dan Espen