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It's baffling tha[t] after 59 years , Unix is still stuck in a weird directory naming structure inherited from the the late 60s that no longer make[s] sense whe
by fortran77 11mo ago
It's baffling tha[t] after 59 years , Unix is still stuck in a weird directory naming structure inherited from the the late 60s that no longer make[s] sense when nobody has floppy drives.
- cbm-vic-20 11mo agoUnix pre-dates floppy drives, at least on PDP-11.
- monocasa 11mo agoUnix just barely predates the PDP-11 itself.
- 1718627440 11mo agoI don't know about you. A common namespace composed as a tree makes sense to me. Splitting of user data makes sense to me. Splitting data from code executable code make sense to me. Splitting configuration from other data does. So does splitting code into executables and libraries, splitting into per machine/shared, and splitting into core OS and other (now reversed). The actual names don't matter all that much, but they are short and standardized so we use them. What do you find weird about the directory naming structure?