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>Do we really want a new generation of people who think Unix was born perfect and cannot be improved upon? Yes. "Perfect" may be debatable (what is "perfect" a
by rnd0 4y ago
>Do we really want a new generation of people who think Unix was born perfect and cannot be improved upon?
Yes. "Perfect" may be debatable (what is "perfect" anyway?), but it has lasted over half a century so they must have done something well!
- IshKebab 4y agoI agree it definitely did lots well, but "it lasted over half a century" isn't a great argument for that. There are huge network effects with platform APIs that allow terrible things to persist simply because that's what everyone else uses.