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Thank you for being a breadth of wisdom in the UNIX-worshiping wilderness. You can always get mindshare being first massively underpriced thing to market.
by Ericson2314 8y ago
Thank you for being a breadth of wisdom in the UNIX-worshiping wilderness.
You can always get mindshare being first massively underpriced thing to market.
- jstimpfle 8y agoOnly that this doesn't even touch on design, or what parts could have been done better.
- pjmlp 8y agoSure it does, not using C to start with. Or in another form, C should have done the same as other systems languages, do proper bounds checking, arrays and strings without implicit decay into pointers. Second, having a proper UI story like NeXTSTEP or NeWS, and not the X11 Frankenstein.
- jstimpfle 8y agoEquating kernel design with choice of implementation is a stretch. Also, Unix is not X11, and weren't the other ones running on top of Unices as well?
- mypalmike 8y agoJust walk away. "The language runtime is the OS." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15468395 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15468395