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From: Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: EE or CS?
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:58:37 +1300
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BartC wrote:
>
>
> "Rui Maciel" <rui.maciel@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:kci9p6$usl$1@dont-email.me...
>> BartC wrote:
>>
>>> He has a point. C and Unix (which I've only seen as Linux) do seem pretty
>>> terrible products. Successful, yes, but still crude.
>>
>> When compared with the state of the art back in 1969?
>
> No, then they might have been considered quite nifty. But they haven't
> changed much over forty years and they're carrying a lot of baggage.

Haven't changed much?  Try running a diff on the source (or manuals) for 
an early AT&T UNIX and a contemporary one!

-- 
Ian Collins