Name: Anonymous 2010-09-09 13:24
Yesterday I found the book "The UNIX-HATERS Handbook"
http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf
Rather than being just another rant throwing around adjectives like "bloated mess" or what have you, this book gives specific examples and reasons why everything build on top of any *nix OS is probably the most shoddiest programming used anywhere in professional software. The joke being that every single major server hardware maker uses Linux or there own brand of *nix. You would think by now that the biggest server hardware companies in the world whos trillion dollar business revenue depends on this OS ecosystem would work out some stable standards. But the book points out why this hasnt happened and will never happen (hint: vender lock-in).
Everything about *nix is a disaster: the shell, X windows, network sockets, everything outside of the kernel.
So the point of this thread is that you would think someone somewhere who develops for *nix would have fixed something by now
http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf
Rather than being just another rant throwing around adjectives like "bloated mess" or what have you, this book gives specific examples and reasons why everything build on top of any *nix OS is probably the most shoddiest programming used anywhere in professional software. The joke being that every single major server hardware maker uses Linux or there own brand of *nix. You would think by now that the biggest server hardware companies in the world whos trillion dollar business revenue depends on this OS ecosystem would work out some stable standards. But the book points out why this hasnt happened and will never happen (hint: vender lock-in).
Everything about *nix is a disaster: the shell, X windows, network sockets, everything outside of the kernel.
So the point of this thread is that you would think someone somewhere who develops for *nix would have fixed something by now