Xah Lee's Unixism

[CBFalconer]

Alan Balmer wrote:
> 
... snip ...
> 
> Perhaps I'm misinterpreting John Thingstad's remarks, but I was
> mostly objecting to the idea that Linus sat down with a copy of
> the POSIX specifications and turned them into an OS. (Especially
> since not all of the current POSIX standards existed at the time
> :-)

Considering the POSIX standard as a cookbook for an OS makes no
more sense than considering the C99 standard as a cookbook for a C
compiler.

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 "A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much."
                           -- Francis Crick, co-discover of DNA
 "There is nothing more amazing than stupidity in action."
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