[OpenIndiana-discuss] Update info?

[David]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:
> Presumably there's a balance with this, as with most things.
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> But giving in is not without costs.  Making the quarterly look good often leaves one out of position for the long haul.
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> Maybe one could do both.  Use familiarity tools, but _only_ as a temporary measure, while concurrently encouraging native familiarity.  Encourage standards (and the isolation of code that needs to use non-portable features).  Clean code costs less to maintain, gets a better reputation, and is an insurance policy when the hot platform changes and porting is needed.
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Having a nice "out-of-box experience" for developers does not
necessarily mean providing the old tools.  That was not my point.

Just a clear, obvious, and guided path to apply existing knowledge and
habits to the new environment.