Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?
Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?
Posted Jul 26, 2018 4:38 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Replacing AWK with Python in GCC? by nirbheek
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> "Oh cool, you want to fix this? I support you fully, but only if you do it the way I would've done it."
No one can tell for how long the volunteer/hero-of-the-day will stick around after his initial feat for less appealing maintenance, not even himself. No one knows if/when he will have kids, a super demanding job in a brand new startup, sickness, etc. People capable of large and intense efforts tend to also be the ones getting bored the most easily. Maybe the people "volunteering an opinion" are the ones who have been taking out the garbage for decades, did you check?
> to cleanup a horribly messed up and unmaintainable piece of crap part of the code [...] status-quo of dumpster fire".
Did anyone say it was that bad? AFAIK gcc works.
> For god's sake it's not Java, why is there so much bikeshedding over it.
Good to know we can count on your bikeshedding whenever Java is considered for some random thing :-)