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I understand this is an ironic thing for me to say, given my alias, but is UNIX (along with C and C-descended languages) the best we could do?

• peterwwillis 17y ago
  For the PDP-7/11? Probably.
  • strlen 17y ago
    Certainly agreed, it's amazing what they've accomplished on such limited machines, just it shouldn't be held as a pinnacle of engineering or computer science (else, why would the people who built it be at working on plan9 and go?)
• jmtulloss 17y ago
  The best we can do is usually not the goal. Good enough is the goal. People look at great products and say that sentiment isn't true, but you always have to release. Take the first iPhone. When it came to feature checklists, it was embarrassed by every competitor out there. It nailed the interface though, and that was Apple's definition of "good enough". The shipped, took the industry by storm, and have since added most of those checklist features that everybody thought they needed in the first place.
  • gridspy 17y ago
    Every feature you add makes the menu more complex. There comes a point where removing a feature is itself a feature.