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GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

Posted Dec 23, 2012 9:33 UTC (Sun) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
Parent article: GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

Thanks, Paolo, for all those things (AFAIR it's not only sed, grep and Smalltalk, and C and Autofoo. Anyone remember GNU Lightning?).

Sad to see your frustration: I do understand where it comes from, and you hit the nail on the head with your insights; GNU would be well-advised to read thoroughly what you wrote.

OTOH, I'm torn on many things: in many a case, what at first seemed to me RMS stubborness turned out to be vision.

In any case, I hope you don't go too far away :-)

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GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

Posted Dec 24, 2012 13:40 UTC (Mon) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

> lightning was definitely not one of my top contributions to free software...

You never know. At the time it was a cool idea and inspiring to some. Of course, these days everyone and their dog are doing JIT, but at that time it was either in arcane Lisp world or somewhere buried within Sun. Lightning was there for all to read.

So you'll have to accept thanks from me, anyway :-)

GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

Posted Dec 24, 2012 20:05 UTC (Mon) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link]

A lot of the ideas for lightning came from ccg (Ian Piumarta) and vcode (Fraser, IIRC). Don't forget Self and Smalltalk JITs!

GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

Posted Dec 26, 2012 9:12 UTC (Wed) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

> ccg (Ian Piumarta) and vcode (Fraser, IIRC)

Thanks for the pointers!

> Don't forget Self and Smalltalk JITs!

I knew (well, at my very humble level, anyway) about those. But were they in the open back then?

GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns

Posted Dec 28, 2012 1:41 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

What's wrong with it?