Hi Adrian,
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 3:39 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 6/21/19 3:36 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Forking hundreds of shell instances for doing simple things like string
> > substitution isn't efficient. It's a brain-dead design. Anyone who thinks
> > that sysvinit is the original Unix design has never used an original
> > Unix. sysvinit has always been a hack.
>
> And, FWIW, I recommend reading the "Unix Hater's Handbook" [1] for anyone
> who is still convinced the "old traditional Unix way" (TM) is the way to
> go. It isn't. Original Unix sucks. I have used HP-UX, OSF/1 and old versions
> of Solaris and they are all horrible to use.
Those all postdate SunOS4.1.3 ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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