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From: Alan Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
Subject: Re: Unix Haters
Date: 1996/03/17
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jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) wrote:

> By the
>way after 10+ years of using Unix I am having trouble thinking of a
>standard Unix utility that is not a total misdesigned piece of crap!
>Maybe someone can help me.

Disagree strongly. Having done some work on Unix since 1976, I can assure 
you that Unix as implemented is NOT mis-designed. It is not designed at 
all, it has 'just growed'.

What was once a neat toy and useful tool to fit in 16K words is now a 
monstrosity whose time (should have) passed long ago. But that's another 
thread...