Assembly continues to be used in the development of FreeBSD?

[Jerry McAllister]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:30:09AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:

Ever notice how someone posts something somewhat off-topic or flame
provocative on one of the lists and then we get up to several dozen
posts saying feed the troll and ban the troll, etc.   All the ban-ists
generate more useless traffic (including this one) than any troll
and responses.

////jerry    
   

> 1) It's off-topic for this list.
> 
> 2) The person has an ever-growing history of trolling this list (and
> probably just needs to be banned at this point).  Not the usual "trying
> to make flames" kind of trolling, the more insidious "act just barely
> reasonable enough to get lots of people to waste lots of time" kind of
> trolling.
> 
> If you want to discuss vague generalities around the issue of assembler
> language programming, I'm sure you can find an appropriate forum to do
> so that doesn't also spam people trying to get freebsd work done.
> 
> -- Ian
> 
> On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 17:11 +0100, Frank Mitchell wrote:
> > Why are people moaning just because the guy wants to discuss Assembly? He's 
> > not doing any harm. Some of us are interested, even if we don't want to get 
> > into Assembly personally.
> > 
> > On Monday 07 Apr 2014 20:29:30 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > In message <COL127-W467DCAD7917F70A0590C7BE8680 at phx.gbl>, Jorge Luis
> > > Carvalho Santos writes:
> > 
> > > >According to the book "Complete and Total C" by Herbert Schildt,
> > > >the general rule is not to use Assembly because it creates too many
> > > >problems.
> > > 
> > > Don't feed the troll.
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