"I would have preferred short papers that were a pleasure to read. However, as Peter Medawar (1979) truthfully has said, “Most scientists do not know how to write.” - Per Brinch Hansen, "Evolution of Operating Systems," 200, pg.2 http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/2001b.pdf
"The basic goal was to promote portability ... by developing a clear, consistent, and _unambiguous_ standard." -- POSIX-2024, Frontmatter https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/ "Quote your strings." Wiley
