Unix Haters
There is one handbook for unix haters. I have never heard of that. My friend forwarded this link http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf. But that is full of spate and repeated glug. I am reading through it. The fact is it is all from learned(!!!) persons who behave like laymans and who are more interested in the world of colours and graphics. Thus said, they should have gone ahead and created their own OS. Who stopped them??
1 comment:
You have to understand where these guys (the unix haters) are coming from.
First, the book is more a parody than anything else. Getting DMR to do a anti-forward was a touch of genius.
Second, if you haven't worked on anything better than UNIX it would appear to be a bunch of griping. I personally have never worked on a symbolics M machine, but I am aware of the architecture of the hardware and software ... they were a thing of beauty. I have worked on something similar, that is, the Smalltalk 80 system. One cannot imagine the freedom and joy of programming in such a system if one hasn't been immersed in it. And you have to be immersed in it for a good chunk of time, probably well over 12months to fully appreciate them.
I love UNIX. I've been programming in UNIX since V7 days (1980 on a pdp11/45). But you have to try these fantastic environments like the symbolics or Smalltalk envs.
Of course, the question is why are these environments not commercially successful? There are lots of reasons, but none are really due to technology. Doesn't mean that they aren't technically superior, but unfortunately the business that supported the tech was inferior. (look up the burroughs 5500 vs. the IBM 360. Burroughs was light years ahead, but failed because of lack of marketing, business acumen, and whatever).
Cheers,
Zazman
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