Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: the Unix philosophy and a collection of hacks Date: 3 Mar 2017 00:25:29 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <20170302162646.e2e4b8f4.rsw@therandymon.com> <87tw7b49gd.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <9iomod-4c2.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net n0trtQPmjB+jTyf1aGSETwjk/6eQzAac09c0XyuoaAdnuJ9nEU Cancel-Lock: sha1:g8hYD+ReZtcSZ7sBglZ1ltmYBzA= User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT b8fc14e git.gnome.org/git/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:13242 On Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:04:57 +0000, RS Wood wrote: > On 2017-03-02, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> RS Wood : >>> James Hague, a veteran of programming (has been in programming since >>> the eighties), writes the following: “What I was trying to get across >>> is that if you romanticize Unix, if you view it as a thing of >>> perfection, then you lose your ability to imagine better alternatives >>> and become blind to potentially dramatic shifts in thinking”. The >>> Source. Read this article and the one he refers to: «Free Your >>> Technical Aesthetic from the 1970s». Actually, if you like my article, >>> you’ll like his blog too. >> >> Clickbait? >> >> >> Marko > > I thought the guy's title was a bit inflammatory, but I liked the > article itself: history of things that became "the way" even if they > weren't intended to be. Some of it seems to be lifted from the UNIX-Haters's Handbook. The writer seems to be very well informed about some things, yes does not seem to be aware that MS-DOS came a *lot* later than UNIX. (incidentally, the UHH is worth a read; I learned some useful stuff from it. Available free, online, now) -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org