Fwiw I'm pretty sure that POSIX_ME_HARDER wasn't an RMS-ism. RMS invented the "-pedantic" gcc flag (to enable some warning messages that he felt weren't necessary) and that always got a laugh when he talked about it and that was more his style. POSIX_ME_HARDER was more of a signature style of one of the other devs at the time, rather than of RMS.
maybe so, but it's still brilliant
Do you recall who was that other dev?
Yes, but I don't know what he's doing now and I wouldn't want to put his name here unless he said it was ok.
fair. Let's hope this part of history is written some day.
remember seeing this buried in some ifdefs somewhere or in compile output back in the day.. to me finding the origins this is almost or more interesting than the longopt story itself :)
sssht! be quiet! the moral police are going to ban this as well!
Oh come on. I had a laugh reading it, but immediately understood why it was changed—voluntarily, not by anything resembling police. I wouldn’t wish real censorship on anyone, but I wish y’all were at least able to identify it with better accuracy than a poorly trained AI.
Problem is, all of us including GP are primed by poorly trained AI to take comments in a divisive direction.
I’m primed by poorly trained cognitive chemistry to ignore that I know that and try to make lemonade