Re: The source file culture

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

2009/9/7 KHMan <keinhong@gmail.com>:
> Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>
>> 2009/9/7 KHMan:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>
>> Being "reliable" has nothing to do with number of contributors, nor
>> whether a program is distributed as source or binary.
>
> :-) Arf, I was typing quickly and chose a less than perfect adjective. It is
> more of a sustainability of a FLOSS project thingy.

That's how I understood what you wrote.

>> Amongst programmers there is no such thing as a "pure end user".
[snip]
>
> :-) Woof, another less than perfect choice of phrasing. I mean it like the
> way I use Perl -- I just script in Perl and have never seriously written
> modules for a general audience.

That one is scripting for one's own use tends to give one much more
freedom about what libraries and languages to use, not less.

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