I don't have an opinion on the miscellaneous unix apps Uriel listed, but the bias is obvious.
On the programming language section: Did he even try D or did he lump it in with C++ because it uses as many semicolons? Complete lack of Lisp or at least Scheme which is far more simple than anything else in this list. Omits Erlang as a programming language and then lists it last (Go first, of course) in the less harmful threading models to not look like he's hyping Go hard when goroutines is basically the same thing along with the typed Limbo channels. Also on that note, I despise Go and its insistence on wasting my time with unused variable errors. Limbo is just Oberon with more curlies and Go's obvious previous attempt, nobody uses Limbo at all, every implementation of Scheme sees more active use than Limbo. Might as well advocate an obscure Wirth language which is the exact same thing down to the variable declaration syntax, the same Wirth whose language the C guys bashed in a 1981 paper. C++, Java, Python, Ruby are shitty for various reasons though, but I haven't tried Vala so I don't have an opinion on that one (someone here used to mention it occasionally).
Harmful Less harmful alternatives
SQL databases. [...], BigTable, plain old hierarchical filesystems.
Good grief.
Harmful Less harmful alternatives
IMAP. SMAP(Simple Mail Access Protocol).
Nobody uses SMAP. Considering SMTP already exists for the simple way and the scope that IMAP was trying to accomplish, IMAP is just Lisp over the wire, theres even mention of gensym in the RFC. Or, is it because Crispin made fun of
le UNIX philosophy?
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