From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:18:33 -0400
Date: 2013-09-24T19:18:33-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <q17449da41g1090d8f6fgjk530mqc4i6ng@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1f562daa-f551-4950-93c4-99555c0e3ab3@googlegroups.com
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:38:32 -0700 (PDT), krfkeith@gmail.com declaimed the
following:
>I love the laughable claim that WinNT is poorly designed. While some of the userland has left some to be desired, the core of the NT systems is *very* competently designed. The NT team was lead by Dave Cutler, of DEC fame.
The internals may be good -- though I could wish for even more of VMS
to have been "ported"... Like (common) event flag clusters, IPC via
mailboxes, and maybe even the entire QIO system... Somehow the objects
that WinNT+ uses for "wait" don't feel natural to me, and the divorced
socket I/O system show a few warts (select only works on sockets, need a
different API for files, etc.)
But the failure to provide a decent command shell scripting capability
(a la DCL) saddled it. PowerShell finally makes an apologetic entry (Pity
my main use is a glorified "find":
get-childitem -path "xxx" -filter "*.ext" | select-string -pattern "yyy"
)
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 22:18 Anti-Ada FUD (rant) krfkeith
2013-09-20 22:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-09-20 23:32 ` John B. Matthews
2013-09-21 12:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-22 0:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-09-22 21:24 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 4:43 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 5:14 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-23 6:05 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 23:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-24 7:10 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:00 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:55 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:31 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 8:37 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 8:52 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-23 11:31 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-29 1:04 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-24 1:40 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-24 7:05 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 7:34 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-24 7:49 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 10:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 15:39 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-28 23:28 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 5:55 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 6:12 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 8:36 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 9:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 9:39 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 12:16 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 12:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 14:32 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 22:06 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-09-29 1:00 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 7:26 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-24 6:03 ` Shark8
2013-09-24 7:51 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-26 20:58 ` erlo
2013-09-24 6:38 ` krfkeith
2013-09-24 23:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2013-09-28 6:21 ` Shark8
2013-09-28 14:40 ` Per Sandberg
2013-09-28 21:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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