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Great essay, but Shaw is mistaken about one thing: our art is old enough indeed. Unix and C in particular were created precisely as he describes.
by rwallace 13y ago
Great essay, but Shaw is mistaken about one thing: our art is old enough indeed. Unix and C in particular were created precisely as he describes.
- andrewflnr 13y agoI don't think Unix is quite what he had in mind. Not all simplicity comes from mastery.
- rwallace 13y agoBut Unix did, specifically from hard lessons learned from the failure of Multics. Sure, we now know some aspects of Unix to be suboptimal design, but that's with further decades of collective experience and even today the right answers are not yet entirely clear.