3 May
2020
3 May
'20
1:14 p.m.
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
I really don't know how systems people do it
these days, it is a
much more complex world.
... these days, I have no idea how I'd make a difference.
By doing something besides systems. There are tons of open source
projects at the user level that make a difference. Consider something
like AsciiDoc. Less than 10 years old (methinks), and in use for
production by at least one major technical publisher that I know of.
(And it sure beats the pants off of DocBook XML.)
Or the work I do on gawk, Chet on Bash, other GNU bits.
There's a whole world out there besides just the kernel.
Arnold