Installing a compiler by default

Micah J. Cowan micah at cowan.name
Fri Jun 9 12:01:03 BST 2006


On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:49:08PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On vr, 2006-06-09 at 12:37 +0200, Ralf Meyer wrote:
> 
> > Freedom includes the freedom to mess things up.
> 
> That doesn't mean we have to make it easy to do so...

Agreed. Although, it's not very clear to me that providing a compiler
truly does make it easy to mess things up. At least, I've yet to
encounter a user who actually found a way to worsen their situation
because a compiler happened to be handy for them.

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Micah J. Cowan
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http://micah.cowan.name/



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