Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: UNIX to be rewritten in C++
Message-ID: <1988Feb7.004543.732@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: C++,unix,operating systems
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <398@grand.UUCP> <7766@sunybcs.UUCP> <1387@winchester.mips.COM>, <412@cstowe.csoft.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 7-Feb-88 00:45:39 EST

> If the people involved are on the net, could they possibly setup a suggestion
> postbox somewhere...

I doubt very much that they would be willing to do any such thing.  Have you
any idea how much mail they would get?  A friend on X3J11 estimated that
*they* got over 1000 proposals for new features to be added to C.  That's
written proposals, never mind all the network chatter about it.  Merely
reading and responding intelligently to that kind of flood involves quite
significant manpower and expense.  Especially since many of the proposals,
in my experience with such things, are thoroughly dumb ideas.

Being realistic, given that it's AT&T and Sun who are doing this, and given
that they're talking about the union of System V and 4.nBSD, they undoubtedly
already have an abundance of dumb ideas of their own.  (Taking the union,
rather than the intersection, of the two systems being the first one.)
-- 
Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry