Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Philip Greenspun! "Computers are the tools of the devil. It is as simple as that. There is no monotheism strong enough that

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Philip Greenspun! "Computers are the tools of the devil. It is as simple as that. There is no monotheism strong enough that it cannot be shaken by Unix or any Microsoft product. The devil is real. He lives inside C programs. ... "Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right guru, you can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't." -- http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/servers.html http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/servers.html --- Notes: -- This was written before the Mac OS became Unix. -- It is possible that, given that this paragraph is the prelude to a sales pitch for Unix as the best of a bad lot... Greenspun is overselling the extent to which Unix will work. ;) The corollary to all of this is that the web's primary function is to contain websites by Unix newbies looking for gurus, by Unix gurus looking for newbies, and by Windows users looking for stiff drinks.