Comment on The Art of Unix ProgrammingparentComments−stargazer8314yI haven't found a single mention about him not being a good developer. Do we have any references?−statictype14yWell, there's this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923775But my point was not so much that he's a bad developer but that his software resume is not as impressive as those he compares himself to.−mgedmin14yHave you ever seen the fetchmail source code?−pja14yMy brain is still trying to recover from that particular experience.−16s14yDidn't he take that over from someone else?Edit: Yes, it was written by a guy named Carl Harris and ESR took it over when Harris no longer wished to maintain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetchmail−geoka914yWhy, what's wrong with it?−gonzo14yhttp://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-whyhttp://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archiv...http://www.fetchmail.info/design-notes.html
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I haven't found a single mention about him not being a good developer. Do we have any references?
Well, there's this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923775
But my point was not so much that he's a bad developer but that his software resume is not as impressive as those he compares himself to.
Have you ever seen the fetchmail source code?
My brain is still trying to recover from that particular experience.
Didn't he take that over from someone else?
Edit: Yes, it was written by a guy named Carl Harris and ESR took it over when Harris no longer wished to maintain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetchmail
Why, what's wrong with it?
http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=585008+0+archiv...
http://www.fetchmail.info/design-notes.html