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Yes, it's a very good quote. It's sad most Plan 9 and Inferno innovations, just to name two further developments of Unix, have been ignored. But overall, I am

by nextos 10y ago

Yes, it's a very good quote. It's sad most Plan 9 and Inferno innovations, just to name two further developments of Unix, have been ignored. But overall, I am more comfortable on live environments like Smalltalk or Emacs. There's just one fundamental abstraction, and things can be composed beautifully. In Unix, on the other hand, everything is not a file. And even if it was, little applications like mutt are silos. The code is static, it can't be easily changed or opened. A file interface, in the form of STDIN/STDOUT is too unstructured.

pjmlp 10y ago
> But overall, I am more comfortable on live environments like Smalltalk or Emacs. After Amiga, Atari, Acorn and Windows, getting to learn UNIX ideas seemed quite interesting (I started with Xenix). However, once at the university I got the opportunity to dive into the work of Xerox PARC and ETHZ, the more I learned about them, the more I came to realize that I actually cared more about their vision about how computing should look like, than anything I ever used in UNIX variants. Of course, Plan 9, Inferno and C+@ are other Bell Labs ideas that would have improved the overall UNIX experience, but as you say, have been ignored.