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- From: phardie@nastar.uucp (Pete Hardie)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.144224.7906@nastar.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Transmission Systems, Duluth, GA.
- References: <aldavi01.721333614@starbase.spd.louisville.edu> <1992Nov11.194557.16258@yarc.uucp> <1992Nov13.093952.18999@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:42:24 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Nov13.093952.18999@news.uni-stuttgart.de> skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok) writes:
- >I don't know whether that would help much. My main gripe with UN*X (and
- >its CLI) is a lack of standardization. I primarily use the computers at
- >work to run finished programs and their standardization is still another
- >story. But even just considering UN*X itself it is a damned
- >nuisance to have to remember that tar's command line arguments must not
- >be preceded by '-' since '-' is an argument in itself, while most other
- >commands I use regularly DO require a '-' to precede the arguments.
- >Then sometimes it is possible to group the arguments all together as in
- >'dump -0oucbdsf ...' while other commands barf at such combinations.
- >All this is on the same flavour of UN*X, mind you.
-
- Only some of this is the fault of UNIX. The rest is the fault of those who
- wrote the command code. The Berkeley UNIX extensions (additions?) are all
- post-initial UNIX developments, and therefore do not necessarily follow the
- same design ideas as the initial UNIX work.
-
- >If a computer is to be a help, not a problem in itself it has to be EASY
- >to setup, maintain and take care of. Apps should install themselves and
- >REMOVE themselves as well, if necessary. (I don't want to have to clean
- >up all the symbolic links an app might create on installation). User
- >interface has to be consistent - similar things done in similar ways.
- >Standardized interfaces between programs should exist (and not by the
- >dozen) so that programs can communicate easily...
-
- Very true. Also applicable to every OS, not just UNIX.
-
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