Re:The Rule of Silence (2006)
by upofadown on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @08:27AM
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Our civilization has been using unstructured text for a very long time now...
I totally agree that Unix sux. We need a better philosophy. But you eventually have to come up with something that actually works in practice. I am still waiting.
I remember my excitement at the idea that things like CP/M and MSDOS running on personal computers were going to free us all from the tyranny of mainframe computers running things like Unix. We all know how that turned out. Everyone eventually just gave up and started emulating the top of a desk.
So Unix is good at messing with unstructured text? Good. Get back to me when you have something better that actually works.
I totally agree that Unix sux. We need a better philosophy. But you eventually have to come up with something that actually works in practice. I am still waiting.
I remember my excitement at the idea that things like CP/M and MSDOS running on personal computers were going to free us all from the tyranny of mainframe computers running things like Unix. We all know how that turned out. Everyone eventually just gave up and started emulating the top of a desk.
So Unix is good at messing with unstructured text? Good. Get back to me when you have something better that actually works.