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You're limiting your view on operating systems to the stone age and that's exactly what Linux, Windows... etc are - stone age operating systems (midori is an ex
by nwmcsween 16y ago
You're limiting your view on operating systems to the stone age and that's exactly what Linux, Windows... etc are - stone age operating systems (midori is an exception if ever what I read is released). If the operating system is simply a vm the interface is the vm, what do I mean by this is there's no separation between low level and high level thus no barriers.
- vacri 16y agoOut of curiousity, what is a currently functional non-stone-age operating system?
- calibraxis 16y agoI haven't used any exotic OSes (like the Lisp Machines?), but I believe that Unix's "do one thing and do it well" philosophy was never serious, just an (ignored) guideline to programmers. Ignored partly because Unix isn't that conducive to it. The Unix Way is to operate on lines of text with tools like sed/awk. These lines of text are poorly-serialized object representations. Programs are big monolithic procedures (which take a lot of optional params as input — switches), which you're supposed to glue together under extremely weak programming environments (like bash). I abuse Unix to get out of this paradigm as much as appropriate. There is a good idea hidden inside communicating with serialized objects (which I'm sure Erlang users understand better than I do), but it's a very primitive version. (Maybe I'm wrong and someone will finally enlighten me.)