Compare con el clásico:
The Unix Haters Handbook
Cita:
Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix.
I don’t think that is a coincidence.
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"Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes a mistake, a giant “?” lights up in the center of the dashboard. “The experienced driver,” says Thompson, “will usually know what’s wrong.”
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Modern Unix1 is a catastrophe. It’s the “Un-Operating System”: unreliable, unintuitive, unforgiving, unhelpful, and underpowered. Little is more frustrating than trying to force Unix to do something useful and nontrivial. Modern Unix impedes progress in computer science, wastes billions of dollars, and destroys the common sense of many who seriously use it. An exaggeration? You won’t think so after reading this book
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http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
P.D: Es una de las desgracias de la computación que Unix, al igual que C/C++ & Javascript hayan ganado a pesar de sus fallas sistemáticas en diseño, en contraste con mas sanas & mejores opciones como Plan 9 (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs), BeOS, Ada, Pascal, Lua.
En fin, "Worse is better" casi siempre gana.