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- From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
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- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 01:36:48 GMT
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- jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) wrote:
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- > By the
- >way after 10+ years of using Unix I am having trouble thinking of a
- >standard Unix utility that is not a total misdesigned piece of crap!
- >Maybe someone can help me.
-
- Disagree strongly. Having done some work on Unix since 1976, I can assure
- you that Unix as implemented is NOT mis-designed. It is not designed at
- all, it has 'just growed'.
-
- What was once a neat toy and useful tool to fit in 16K words is now a
- monstrosity whose time (should have) passed long ago. But that's another
- thread...
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