▲ 374 ▼ I love a good fractal (sh.itjust.works) submitted 1 year ago by _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 75 points 1 year ago (4 children) Recursion, n. See recursion permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] don@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children) Obligatory mention of GNU: GNU’s Not Unix! And if one’s adventurous, GNU HURD <—> HIRD. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Think if the GNU project had spent less time working on 'clever' recursive acronyms and fitting Scheme into everything, and more time hacking, we might actually be using their kernel. Linus locked himself in his bedroom for the summer and got almost all of POSIX working on 386. That's the level of geek to aspire to. If RMS had just decided to name his kernel after himself rather than messing, we'd all be be using Stallix instead. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago To be fair, GNU did a ton of work at that time (and today still). GCC and glibc alone are monumental works of software. Add programs like emacs and you now have millions of lines of code you need to develop and maintain. permalink fedilink source parent [–] 200ok@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago See also, Stack Overflow permalink fedilink source parent
[–] don@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (2 children) Obligatory mention of GNU: GNU’s Not Unix! And if one’s adventurous, GNU HURD <—> HIRD. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Think if the GNU project had spent less time working on 'clever' recursive acronyms and fitting Scheme into everything, and more time hacking, we might actually be using their kernel. Linus locked himself in his bedroom for the summer and got almost all of POSIX working on 386. That's the level of geek to aspire to. If RMS had just decided to name his kernel after himself rather than messing, we'd all be be using Stallix instead. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago To be fair, GNU did a ton of work at that time (and today still). GCC and glibc alone are monumental works of software. Add programs like emacs and you now have millions of lines of code you need to develop and maintain. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Think if the GNU project had spent less time working on 'clever' recursive acronyms and fitting Scheme into everything, and more time hacking, we might actually be using their kernel. Linus locked himself in his bedroom for the summer and got almost all of POSIX working on 386. That's the level of geek to aspire to. If RMS had just decided to name his kernel after himself rather than messing, we'd all be be using Stallix instead. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago To be fair, GNU did a ton of work at that time (and today still). GCC and glibc alone are monumental works of software. Add programs like emacs and you now have millions of lines of code you need to develop and maintain. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago To be fair, GNU did a ton of work at that time (and today still). GCC and glibc alone are monumental works of software. Add programs like emacs and you now have millions of lines of code you need to develop and maintain. permalink fedilink source parent
