From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b5d24fafdd53e815 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Ludovic Brenta" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why C for the Open Source Movement? Date: 8 May 2006 02:13:22 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1147079601.989647.132200@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1146943727.180033.286070@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.190.145.10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1147079610 7313 127.0.0.1 (8 May 2006 09:13:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 09:13:30 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1146943727.180033.286070@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; fr-FR; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 SEVPXS01 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=212.190.145.10; posting-account=ZjNXewwAAADyBPkwI57_UcX8yKfXWOss Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4139 Date: 2006-05-08T02:13:22-07:00 List-Id: 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.