Being there and studying it is very different. It wouldn't surprise you to discover that the authors of UNIX were there, would it? And yet, somehow, I believe

Being there and studying it is very different. It wouldn't surprise you to discover that the authors of UNIX were there, would it? And yet, somehow, I believe that I know better than they do -- how comes? You wouldn't believe it, but things often are easier to judge in hindsight, than when being involved with them... > willfully You pretend that I said that UNIX got into its position by being awful inside and out, but what I wrote is that it got into it's position despite being awful inside and out. In other words, you pretend to misunderstand me, and then argue with something I didn't say.