Yes, just as the other comment says. To me, Nix is "Noah's trampoline", no-holds-barred mud-wresting all the nasty details of Unix and software as it actually

Yes, just as the other comment says. To me, Nix is "Noah's trampoline", no-holds-barred mud-wresting all the nasty details of Unix and software as it actually exits, all the way down, into something just every so slightly saner so we can sale over the floodwaters and land on the shore of an actually sane practice of computing. And yes, I would basically want describe in in those terms even if it weren't for your nick and vocabulary :).