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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by tannhaeuser on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:00AM (#20112470)
I don't see this anti-Unix stance at all in what Apple is doing here. The "P"-languages that shall not be named were never part of Unix/POSIX, and arguably violate Unix principles in that they want to establish a language-centric ecosystem when the Unix userland is about small, language-agnostic programs working together.
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Re:macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including ... by coldtea on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:27AM (#20112618)
>and arguably violate Unix principles in that they want to establish a language-centric ecosystem when the Unix userland is about small, language-agnostic programs working together.

That was never a real consideration where distros/vendors are concerned (UNIX or Linux). Just a nice-to-have goal for the command line userland (and even that, more back in the day).

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