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In my experience the second time leads to architecture astronautics... third time is when you get it right. Althought in OS space one might argue that second g
by dfox 9y ago
In my experience the second time leads to architecture astronautics... third time is when you get it right.
Althought in OS space one might argue that second generation of time sharing OSes (TOPS-10, ITS, MCP...) got more things right than are right in Unix and such.
- tandr 9y agoI like the term "architecture astronautics". There is probably a joke hiding somewhere in a plain sight about "Plan 9" wrt Unix...
- dfox 9y agoFor OS it means that you should pick one abstraction for process state and one abstraction for IO and in fact you can have same abstraction for both. In this view Plan 9 makes sense while modern Unix with files, sockets, AIO, signals, various pthread and IPC primitives and so on does not (not to mention the fact that on every practical POSIX implementation various such mechanisms are emulated in terms of other synchronisation mechanisms)
- kps 9y agoPerhaps I'm subject to a giant whoosh here, but this subthread is recapitulating The Mythical Man-Month piece by piece.
- zaarn 9y agoReinventing well explored areas of software engineering from first principles!