Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> skribis: > As a professional programmer, I completely disagree with any dogma > based on "philosophy" rather than technical merits.
False dilemma. I _am_ arguing on grounds of technical merit, and simply using the term ‘philosophy’ to refer to design. Authorities saying bad things about Unix means little to me; it certainly is not an argument in favor of bad software and hacks. Of course Unix is very old and very tired; but here we are not really talking about advances beyond that, which I think would look like such experimental systems as Plan 9 or GNU Hurd, not mere complicated hacks within the old framework, which is what systemd is. In this field the arguments go round and round, however, and never change. The ‘programming practices’ columns of all the software magazines are always the same article, pressed with a rubber stamp that was worn out already 30 years ago.
