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Programmers then and now (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 37 points 11 months ago

80s programmers hated Unix, btw. Look up Unix Haters Handbook, it's a free and funny read

[-] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Unix Haters Handbook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook

Didn't knew this. It has 360 pages, wow!

EDIT:

The Macintosh on which I type this has 64MB: Unix was not designed for the Mac. What kind of challenge is there when you have that much RAM?

hehe

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

They also hated their local sysadmin. BOFH still holds up in a few key ways.

[-] Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks. I didn't know there was a real band called "The Pipi Pickers" and I might have lived on happily without that knowledge.

[-] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Good thing GNU's not Unix

[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

A lot of it was fair criticism at the time. Linux fixed some of what was wrong. Having a good sudo config mostly resolves the problem of having one superuser account, and big, multiuser systems are a lot less common now, anyway. X's network transparency features aren't that useful in modern computing contexts, either, though I have found a few over the years.

But mostly, it's because the landscape changed from a hundred Unix vendors vs a bunch of other OSen, to now where it's Windows vs Linux vs OSX. By that comparison, the two with Unix-derived history look well thought out.

(This also implies that NextStep was the one old Unix vendor that has survived in a meaningful way. I don't think anyone would have guessed that 30 years ago.)