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This document talks a lot about deficiencies of the unix way, yet fails to give any concrete examples of advantage of the proposed new way where everything runs
by effie 8y ago
This document talks a lot about deficiencies of the unix way, yet fails to give any concrete examples of advantage of the proposed new way where everything runs in the same address space, uses object storage, and is allowing users to run (!) "only code that has been produced from the high-level notation of the language".
I agree that there are technical problems with interoperability of programs and partially this may be due to the unix way. But the article does not analyze this and it is not clear that such a radical change is a good way to solve those problems. Even if theoretically yes, there are practical things to consider, such as the insane amount of work needed to switch. Perhaps the author just likes Lisp and has a solution in need of a problem.