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by vthriller
2954 days ago
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> I've heard people say how GNU code is bloated and messy many times before, but never that they're prone to failure. Just have a look at changelog for coreutils [0]. Sure it's very long, especially if you're not following its releases, sure it's full of weird edge cases that you might've never encountered (I'm certainly way too lazy to go as far as to look for those rare bugs that I stumbled upon years and years ago but there definitely were some), but this, IMO, is a great illustration of how GNU (or, rather, GNU coreutils) code is "prone to failure"—mainly because it sometimes tries to do way too much. [0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/plain/NEWS |
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