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I don't think it is very "hard" to "destroy" most of these programs, they were written a long time ago, they evolved with backwards compatibility or portability

I don't think it is very "hard" to "destroy" most of these programs, they were written a long time ago, they evolved with backwards compatibility or portability in mind, these can run on pretty much any system. It does seem a bit unfair to compare it to a quickly hacked together program that you test against one use case. Like the other said, the second article will probably be more interesting.

StavrosK 7y ago
But multiple people have been working full time on wc for decades! At least, if you believe the article.
- iainmerrick 7y ago
  Decades yes, but who said “full time”?
  - joosters 7y ago
    I've been working full time on 'wc' for only the last five years, since being promoted from full time working on 'cat'. Once I've wrung every last drop of performance out of wc, I can move on to the next largest limiting factor in GNU performance, 'tail' :-)
  - StavrosK 7y ago
    That's what "decades of man-hours" means.