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Everyone should read the Linux kernel source to see how aggressively up a painful local maximum you can get in the name of simplicity.
by mhh__ 3y ago
Everyone should read the Linux kernel source to see how aggressively up a painful local maximum you can get in the name of simplicity.
- asddubs 3y agoWhat do you mean?
- diarrhea 3y agoJust a guess, but perhaps things like the process model. PID 1, fork, exec and so forth. Or argv, or environment variables, or “everything is a file”, or having just three streams (stdin, stdout, stderr). In isolation, all beautifully simple concepts, but there has been an awful lot built on top over several decades, stretching and outgrowing the simplicity. The complexity of modern technology has to live somewhere, though.