alt.religion.your.operating.system.sucks
anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com
anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com
Sun Jan 29 21:23:25 PST 1995
Spif wrote:
>UNIX? user hostile? where have you been lately?
Well, maybe unix gets its reputation for being hostile because of
things like
* many commands don't work fully (find, for example)
* a large portion choke on input that isn't "expected"
* many more do extremely poor input checking,
* the configuration files are bizarre
* different version have command with different options (stty
everything, ps -ef vs. ps -aux, etc.)
* each version is slightly different (ever try porting a non-trivial
program? Look at some available large software and examine the #ifdef
#define #endif statements; look at the differences in system calls.
Hell, look at the "config" program that comes with PERL - 80K of stuff
to build a make file for the flavor of UNIX you are using!)
* the commands don't combine well (often uuencode + sendmail ==
garbage)
* many commands accept a slightly different regular expression syntax
than the shell does
* the commands aren't built with ease of use in mind. For example, to
kill a process under unix requires that I know it's process id. How
do I find that? Run another command...
> ever hear of X windows?
X-Windows is an extreme pain to get working. Sure, if you buy your
unix workstation the manufacturer will pre-install it. Just try
setting it up from scratch.
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