svn commit: r268566 - head/usr.bin/users

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jul 12 13:27:05 UTC 2014


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 01:37:49PM +0100, Bruce Simpson wrote:
> On 12/07/2014 12:34, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >This joke is bad.  The C++ version is worse in every way.
> 
> I concur with everything you have said in your message. Moral of story: it
> is very, very easy to introduce bloat using C++, and using a higher level
> language does not automatically lead to better code quality.

+1.  Now the question is, how do we come out of this mess?  Shall we redo
it in C again?  Polish C++ version?  Merge it with w(1) as suggested?

./danfe


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