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Pike also said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3075550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3075550 "..the Unix/POSIX/Linux systems of today are messier,
by dobbsbob 12y ago
Pike also said:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3075550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3075550
"..the Unix/POSIX/Linux systems of today are messier, clumsier, and more complex than the systems the original Unix was designed to replace.
It started to go wrong when the BSD signal stuff went in (I complained at the time), then symlinks, sockets, X11 windowing, and so on, none of which were added with proper appreciation of the Unix model and its simplifications."