From: "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: Why C for the Open Source Movement?
Date: 8 May 2006 02:13:22 -0700
Date: 2006-05-08T02:13:22-07:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <1146943727.180033.286070@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
zeta_no writes :
> Isn't the Unix tradition based on well crafted design mecanisms?
No, it's not. It started as a hack made by a few long-haired, rebel
programmers in their spare time, bazaar-style. In contrast, MULTICS was
intended to be a beautiful cathedral of software, and I think it was
written in PL/I not C. MULTICS is still not complete, and I think it'll
take as long to complete as it took actual cathedrals :)
But history showed that "worse is better", unfortunately for purists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
--
Ludovic Brenta.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-08 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-06 19:28 Why C for the Open Source Movement? zeta_no
2006-05-06 19:55 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-05-08 3:46 ` kevin cline
2006-05-08 9:05 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-05-08 9:13 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2006-05-08 12:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-05-08 13:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-06-06 14:24 ` thvv
2006-06-06 15:35 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-06 15:47 ` Ed Falis
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