git
Posted Jan 26, 2006 15:42 UTC (Thu) by
Zarathustra (guest, #26443)
In reply to:
git by lm
Parent article:
Tridge wins the 2005 Free Software Award
> I stated for years that this stuff was hard and people said that I was wrong.
And as anyone that is not delusional can see now, you were completely wrong, not only there is git, but there is also Mercurial, which in 7000 lines of python provides everything one will ever need from a distributed version control system, many improvements still are possible, but that is true of any piece of software, what matters is that it works right now, and it does what people needs. (And I'm sorry to break this to you, but it's much faster and cleaner than bk will ever be)
...there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it
so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make
it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
-- C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
It seems to me that bk follows the second way, no wonder it was so hard to build and took so much effort, pity you didn't learn much from Unix, once upon a time you had more sense than others, but you seem to have forgotten about the value of simplicity.
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