This is an excerpt from Eric Raymond's book The Art of Unix Programming. I submitted it because it's an interesting time capsule. I wonder how much better thing

This is an excerpt from Eric Raymond's book The Art of Unix Programming. I submitted it because it's an interesting time capsule. I wonder how much better things actually are now, especially among the dark mass of business application developers that we rarely hear about here. I slightly editorialized the title to add context. Then HN dropped "The Tale of".