Ask HN: Is Lisp the Linux of Languages?

Re:Ask HN: Is Lisp the Linux of Languages? by jiripospisil on Monday September 02, 2024 @06:02PM (#41429152)

> The brilliant strategy of OS X when it came out was to build on top of Linux

OS X / macOS has nothing to do with Linux. It's a Mach derivative sprinkled with BSD.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Lisp the Linux of Languages? by krschacht on Monday September 02, 2024 @08:08PM (#41429881)

Thanks for the correction on this. I always thought BSD and the various Linux flavors were all derived from Unix. But reading up on it, it sounds like BSD is a derivative of Unix whereas Linux was simply modeled off of it.

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