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: a07f3367d7,36a29c2860aff686 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Properties Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:09:23 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <3b84c8e7-1a51-4a7c-9646-119f1fc51478@s4g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <4pnv7nl4cdui$.1n28i7lqk4mek$.dlg@40tude.net> <1k7367gtebsgm$.18auo6u3nfg34.dlg@40tude.net> <618677c8-a44f-443e-9052-a94fb48c999a@s4g2000yql.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1291334963 10675 192.74.137.71 (3 Dec 2010 00:09:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 00:09:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TOMxOQtTe8L1CLO8fb91bNIfsWo= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16732 Date: 2010-12-02T19:09:23-05:00 List-Id: Warren writes: > But the text looks like an amusing read, so I'll read it on my > commute home. It is amusing, both the parts I agree with and the parts I disagree with. >...It'll be interesting to see what some folks find > to hate about Unix. There's lots to hate about Unix. There's lots to hate about other operating systems, too. I switch back&forth between Linux and Windows all the time, and I definitely prefer Linux. But I still hate it. >...The only detracting thing I find about it, > is simply the fact that it is well steeped in C. Well, that's sort of like saying "The only thing to dislike about the Atlantic Ocean is that it's got seawater in it". ;-) I don't think C would have gone anywhere without riding on the back of Unix. An operating system shouldn't be heavily biased toward writing user-mode programs in the same language as the OS. Unix is. Some others are better in that regard. VMS, for example. (But there's a lot about VMS I don't like.) I mean, defining system call interfaces as .h files is just a bad way to do things. VMS is better in that regard. - Bob