Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: the Unix philosophy and a collection of hacks Date: 3 Mar 2017 11:02:17 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <20170302162646.e2e4b8f4.rsw@therandymon.com> <87tw7b49gd.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <9iomod-4c2.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oyIGMNRJUqMOItySGyj3ywqm4RsaaYxqVeKwQNV5sd9fzCj7Wz Cancel-Lock: sha1:IVhAk0J7Rg/Bj7gtyqTM5nwGYK4= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:13245 On 2017-03-03, Bob Eager wrote: > 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; Really? I thought it sucked syphilitic donkey dick. -- Today is Boomtime, the 62nd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3183 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.