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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:14:12 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: FlCXGwhQlFv+3IL7ojNklA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Original-Bytes: 1810 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183404 Date: 2013-09-23T00:14:12-05:00 List-Id: On 9/22/2013 11:43 PM, Peter Brooks wrote: > On Sunday, 22 September 2013 23:24:24 UTC+2, Shark8 wrote: >> >> >> Tell me about it; that's one of the biggest turn-offs I encountered in school. >> > > The power of Unix is mainly down to the brilliant invention of fork and exec - > Also that devices of any sort, can be viewed as files. This is a nice and clean interface design. A socket is treated as a file just as well as a plain text file or a hard disk device. Piping and stdout/stdin/stderr etc... all makes things work well together. Make one small program that does one thing, but does it very well, is what I like about Unix/Linux. (...but I am still waiting for the year that Linux finally figures how to build an easy to use desktop :) --Nasser