[buug] GNU bloat (was: ISO date format)

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Jan 23 19:57:33 PST 2013


Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu):

[...]
> But, a whole lot of GNU extensions I often find to be rather bloated
> overkill, and not so useful. 
[...]

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q3/2104.6.html

Bonus link:
http://www.wlug.org.nz/POSIX_ME_HARDER

(I remember that interview Richard gave at Linuxcare in 1999, and agree
that the world is notably poorer for losing that POSIX_ME_HARDER
environment variable.)

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