bash.org archive

* polykurt gets pissed off when seemingly simple programs have
lots of dependencies on other    packages.  People are taught
to worship the concept of software reuse, but they take it too
far.  I should write a C library called libtruncate.  Every
time somebody needs to truncate an array, they will feel
obligated to use my library instead of writing five lines of
their own code to do the job.  And I will make libtruncate
depend on Gnome _and_ KDE _and_ JA