POSIX was outdated at its inception. But it turns out that's fine. Lots of people have gotten plenty of good use out of POSIX. It does basic things in a straigh

POSIX was outdated at its inception. But it turns out that's fine. Lots of people have gotten plenty of good use out of POSIX. It does basic things in a straightforward way and it's easy to implement. Cloud-based systems are basically the new UNIX, in that they are all completely different and non-standard and it's impossible to write something portable for more than one cloud provider. It would be great to have a "new POSIX" designed for the Cloud era.