Reading timestamps is indeed a clusterfuck, but are you sure that whoever came up with that mess would have done better with a deprogramming model? Edit: I won

Reading timestamps is indeed a clusterfuck, but are you sure that whoever came up with that mess would have done better with a deprogramming model? Edit: I won't elevate the Unix model to a pedestal, but in his favour I will say that the relative simplicity of the model and it's inherent difficulties to extensibility helped limit scope creep and overengineering.