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It seems that the lessons of Rob Pike's 1983 talk "cat -v Considered Harmful" have still not been absorbed 34 years later. Here is the abstract of the talk, tog
by MikeTaylor 10y ago
It seems that the lessons of Rob Pike's 1983 talk "cat -v Considered Harmful" have still not been absorbed 34 years later. Here is the abstract of the talk, together with the link to the paper (co-authored with Brian Kernighan) that evolved from it: http://gaul.org/files/cat_-v_considered_harmful.html http://gaul.org/files/cat_-v_considered_harmful.html
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- pjmlp 10y agoI is kind of interesting that FOSS community argues for the spirit of UNIX, when its creators all agree that UNIX as OS model is long overdue.
- flukus 10y agoWhere are the better options? There are plenty of warts, as you'd expect from something that old, but dealing with those warts (or beauty spots) is still the best option I know of.
- pjmlp 10y agoYes, the school of though from Xerox PARC and ETHZ workstation systems and safe systems programming languages, with development environment deeply integrated with the OS. Even Plan 9 and Inferno are more close to that design model than UNIX, hence Rob Pike's complaints about UNIX, how ACME works or Limbo's design.
- mfukar 10y agoThe better options are struggling for support while the rest of us pour our money on the problematic UNIX, hoping we can 'deal' with its warts. In one word, inertia.