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UNIX sucks. Of course, enough time has passed that people expect a mathematics degree to come with diarrhea from the 1970s for stupid reasons.
by verisimilitudes 4y ago
UNIX sucks. Of course, enough time has passed that people expect a mathematics degree to come with diarrhea from the 1970s for stupid reasons.
- icedchai 4y agoWhat would you prefer?
- verisimilitudes 4y agoLisp and Smalltalk existed before the C language, and don't have its damning flaws. Ada's also much nicer. As for the operating system, there are currently no good such systems that aren't very old. I use Emacs to largely avoid the UNIX sh. Ideally, a university would have its own operating system, but I suppose that would be too hard, in comparison to accreting another layer of shit over UNIX. Something such as Alan Kay's VPRI would be best: http://vpri.org http://vpri.org I didn't go to a university to learn anything about computers, fortunately.
- anthk 4y agoToday one of the best "Not really Unix, but close" it's called Guix(SD) and it's bound to Scheme. And without C, forget about having a kernel and a Scheme compiler. The best env to complete SICP it's, paradoxically, a Unix like system written in C with an Scheme DSL to set up the system declarativelly.
- 0x445442 4y ago> Ideally, a university would have its own operating system, but I suppose that would be too hard Actually that’s exactly what Nicklaus Wirt did with Oberon.