Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!csu-cs!silver From: silver@csu-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: UNIX: INHUMAN FACTORS Message-ID: <2314@csu-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jul-83 00:39:28 EDT Article-I.D.: csu-cs.2314 Posted: Wed Jul 13 00:39:28 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 22:29:50 EDT References: ittvax.825 Lines: 13 Never blame UN*X as a whole for the fault of one of its parts. It's so flexible and modular that to do so is unfair. Any bozo can add something to the system merely by getting others to accept and use it. In fact, UN*X is for that very reason greater than the sum of its parts! PS: I agree, however, that most of the parts look like they were coded by matchbook-cover computer school dropouts. My own pet theory is that "they" were/are all such geniuses that they couldn't care less about the quality of implementation of an idea, so long as it worked. This attitude is, of course, extremely shortsighted. Anyone with an ounce of sense will never, ever generate anOTHER line of C code that looks that bad. Right?