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People new to *nix don't realize that it's a 55 year old design that keeps accumulating cruft.
by boricj 2y ago
People new to *nix don't realize that it's a 55 year old design that keeps accumulating cruft.
- hifromwork 2y agoOf course, but the same (with a bit lower number of years) can be said about Windows, or HTTP, or the web with its HTML+JS+CSS unholy trinity, or email, or anything old and important really. It's scary how much of our modern infrastructure hinges on hacks made tens of years ago.