APPLEVISION Monitor ,, `one true way''.

On Monday 06 May 2002 16:54, you wrote: OK WinBloat Dumbf**k95 "Attention KMart shoppers" etc Mickysoft despite your need for what Sigmund called "transference" is rather emotionless for me, they don't matter. East German trabants was not much of a car with its particle board frame and little 2 cycle engine, but its what the poor slaves could get after a many year wait while the commisars drove autobahn rockets built the other side of the wall. I would not be to fond of a trabant, either, i think you confuse my view of silly and pathetic with hatred. Didn't we have court transcripts that laid this out ? Like.. don't develop OS/2 apps or we will remove the insider info you need to develop winblows apps. The record is repleat, but here you go again making statements on a basis that wont survive scrutiny. if mickysoft had not taken the tactic of taretting marketing to clueless and stupid ( about IT) upper management and forcing sh**ware over the objections of the IT people. Well we cant blame mickysoft, as it was an excellent and effective tactic ( unless you was the poor IT guy forced to toss away his chromoly tools for mickysoft pliers made of potmetal.) This is also well documented, the Aberdeen paper is classic. Again.... emotion instead of reason. As for "doomed" Unix has never seen such success, we are on a wave like never before seen in the systems history. Many reasons you could name, Unix finnaly available for inexpensive hardware, at little or no cost, and the system maturity, unlike most the systems that came before, we are still adding to and benefiting from the exertions of those that came before us. I operate on it, context, theres a word. with your claimed perfection of English, perhaps your familiar. so stepping out of the context, since you have already. I told you this once already, Unix given a persona would not claim best at anything, but it would claim, provably so, that its good at more things than any other system. So stepping back into context ... Distrust all claims for ``one true way''. Even the best software tools tend to be limited by the imaginations of their designers. Nobody is smart enough to optimize for everything. Therefore, the Unix tradition includes a healthy mistrust of ``one true way'' approaches to software design or implementation. It embraces multiple languages, open extensible systems, and customization hooks everywhere. and to address the last one left hanging. If you're new to Unix, these principles are worth some meditation. Software-engineering texts recommend most of them; but most other operating systems lack the right tools and traditions to turn them into practice, so most programmers can't apply them with any consistency. They come to accept blunt tools, bad designs, overwork, and bloated code as normal -- and then wonder what Unix fans are so annoyed about. Raymond