On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 12:37 AM Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2022-08-04 at 17:36 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 04:06:18AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > ...
> > >
> > > When I write Free Software, I'm one of those "meh, good enough" guys, although
> > > I'd
> > > phrase it "Awww Riiight, good enough!". The reason is that perfectionists never
> > > finish.
> >
> > Might this be why we're using linux instead of Hurd?
>
> I never thought of it, but it's a possible cause of Hurd never taking the lead.
>
> One of the very smart things Linus did was to forego the pie-in-the-sky dream of the
> theorists, the microkernel, to do the kernel he could actually get done all by
> himself, the regular kernel.
>
> I'm reminded of Perl6, which in 1999 we all knew was going to take over the world.
> Heck, Sams Publishing offered to have me be the main author of an upcoming Perl6
> Unleashed. But instead of just fixing a few of Perl 5's biggest problem, they shot
> for the moon, during which time Python and Ruby gladly claimed all of Perl's
> mindshare. Today Perl 6 is a language called Raku, and for all I know it's a great
> language, but in the persuit of the perfect at the turn of the century they gave up
> the good, and now Raku is a minor league player.

There is an update to perl5.xx being worked on IIRC.
>
> When I started the VimOutliner project, instead of writing it from scratch, I used
> Vim as the engine and just added a few scripts. So I was able to create and release
> it in about a week.
>
> Examples abound: Eric Raymond's fetchmail. Runit, which is so simple I could
> maintain it if I had to. The various NetworkManager alternatives that have sprung up
> at Devuan.
>
> Perfectionists never finish, and the perfect is the enemy of the good.
>

My motto has been - - - I'll aim for perfection but I will settle for
excellence.

Insisting on perfection is like statistically asking for 100% or 0% results -
- - - impossible and (I'll let you insert your favorite adjective).

Regards