> My brain just loves reduction and homogeneity and sexps / fp hits very high on this. OK then! Good for you. With great effort I can just barely follow what i

> My brain just loves reduction and homogeneity and sexps / fp hits very high on this. OK then! Good for you. With great effort I can just barely follow what is going on; it is so very much not my thing. But we all have different strengths and weaknesses. > Then there are tribal effects This is so very true and much underestimated. Unix isn't an OS: it's a mindset and a set of cultural traditions, that have led multiple groups of people to re-implement the same style of OS over and over and over again. And now, it's so pervasive that many can't imagine anything else. I personally come from an era when rich complex GUI OSes fit into a single digit number of megabytes, and were amenable to exploration and comprehension by a single non-specialist individual in their spare time, without external materials or help. And I think that was hugely valuable and important, and we've lost it. We threw it away with the trash not realising how vital it was.