POSIX was largely an attempt to get everyone to agree on the bits that everyone agreed on, which turned out to be not a lot beyond the basics. There was no pol

POSIX was largely an attempt to get everyone to agree on the bits that everyone agreed on, which turned out to be not a lot beyond the basics. There was no political will to standardize the layers above POSIX and the standards that attempted to do that are dead and buried (in some cases for good reasons). 20 years later there still isn't the political will towards standardization. The original article is correct in that our programming models do need to be updated, but I think it's a stretch to blame it on POSIX.