Unix is more like a shotgun than a hole hawg. It solves all problems, not necessarily correctly but quickly enough and reliably enough to go home and do somethi

Unix is more like a shotgun than a hole hawg. It solves all problems, not necessarily correctly but quickly enough and reliably enough to go home and do something else. Sometimes it hurts you when you fire it and sometimes you lose a couple of toes if you don’t know what you’re doing. The last line of the article is a killer because I’m writing this on an Apple unix system on a train at the moment after balancing my books.