On 10 October 2013 20:36, Jos Backus <jos_at_catnook.com> wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2013 11:54 AM, "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor_at_hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote: > > > > On 10 October 2013 19:15, Jos Backus <jos_at_catnook.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Oct 10, 2013 9:38 AM, "Julian Elischer" <julian_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > >> > >> > well since people expect RCS.. it is not a no brainer. > >> > you are asking people to learn a whole new tool for functionality > that > >> is currently very simple.. > >> > edit file > >> > ci -l file > >> > add comment. > >> > >> Such is the price of progress. I envy people who don't have to learn > >> anything new in order to stay employed :-) > > > > > > So your definition of progress is "doing more work to achieve the same > result"?.. > > That would only be true if they were equivalent, and we didn't care about > the extra features. You may not, but many people do, as the popularity of > git and other distributed version control systems proves. > You're missing the point- the requirement is "provide a way to keep track of changes for file X" not "have many fancy and unnecessary features"... -- Igor M.Received on Thu Oct 10 2013 - 18:07:31 UTC
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