Die GNU autotools

[Elazar Leibovich]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>wrote:

> If two programs are virtually identical, have the
> same features and quality, but one is written in C and takes 5 MB on disk
> and memory and the second is in Java and has its own copy of the JVM and
> takes 25 MB on disk and memory - which of the two do you think the
> distributions will pick up? Which do you think users will end up using?
>

I seriously think that the one the end users will be using is the one with
the pink background and cute kittens in the toolbar, regardless of whatever
you mentioned. I don't think history proved that the best software is the
most used software (ie, ADA vs C for real-time systems).
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