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The server you submitted your comment to uses this 'OS nobody has used for decades'. The OS you wrote this from, also uses this implementation detail.
by kichimi 6y ago
The server you submitted your comment to uses this 'OS nobody has used for decades'. The OS you wrote this from, also uses this implementation detail.
- user-the-name 6y agoIt most definitely does NOT use that OS. That is a ridiculous claim.
- maweki 6y agoEvery OS, Windows as well, uses the concept of search paths, namespaces, and environmental variables.
- dijit 6y agoI think he's speaking about First Edition UNIX, and, yes, we don't use that operating system. We just use operating systems which implement concepts derived from there. So, technically correct, though the argument has little merit.
- user-the-name 6y agoThe point is, "/usr/local/bin" is an artifact that made sense on that system, and that system alone, but we started using it elsewhere, and not it is so firmly established we do not dare to change it, even though it is a completely arbitrary choice with no relevance to modern systems.
- maweki 6y agowell, yeah. Every path and name ever in all of history is arbitrary. As is the seperator between the components.
- lionkor 6y ago> completely arbitrary choice with no relevance to modern systems sounds like you never learned anything about computers before deciding you want to write software for one. It's pointless to argue with someone that has no idea about even the basics of a common OS.
- user-the-name 6y agoI've used and programmed computers for over three decades.
- dijit 6y agoThis will sound accusatory, but there is an allegory: "There are people with 30 years experience, and there are people with 1 year of experience repeated 30 times."
- user-the-name 6y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25790033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25790033
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- cxr 6y agoPlease respect the HN guidelines and don't include baseless insults in your comments to other users.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoCould you try being more condescending? I can't tell if you actually work in tech yet. We can know how and why '/usr/local/bin' came into being while still disagreeing that it makes any sense to keep using that today. We know why '/sbin' and '/usr/bin' exist separately from '/bin', yet the distinction is completely useless today and so many systems just symlink it all together! It is not unreasonable to suggest that just because we keep doing things a certain way means that doing it that way is the right way to do it.