On February 21, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>    Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> wrote:
> >   I dunno, dude.  I use shared libs on dozens of systems, dozens of
> > many different platforms, all day every day...been doing so for
> > years...I have no problems.
>    
>    Have you ever led your own branch of UNIX, working with 8 different
> source trees, and picking-and-choosing pieces between them? I bet you
> haven't, otherwise you would feel differently.

  No, man...but I've run hundreds of machines, with tens of thousands
of users.  Let's get things in perspective here...things are seldom
easy for developers.  Developers put in lots of hard work to make
usable systems for themselves, sysadmins, and users.  Yes, software is
sometimes difficult to write...and part of the goal of that is to make
it NOT so difficult to use.


                         -Dave McGuire
                          mcguire@neurotica.com