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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!purdue!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs.uiuc.edu!sparc0b!jyelon
  3. From: jyelon@cs.uiuc.edu (Josh Yelon)
  4. Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
  5. Message-ID: <C19K53.Kuz@cs.uiuc.edu>
  6. Sender: news@cs.uiuc.edu
  7. Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  8. References: <1jlfkdINNebt@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <ePaRXB4w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
  9. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:22:15 GMT
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  12. In <ePaRXB4w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
  13.  
  14. >Moreover, quite frankly "Unix is semi-cryptic" is a flaw that should be
  15. >fixed, that (I do hope!) is BEING fixed in the commercial Unixes, and that
  16. >the Linux Doc Project is trying to fix for Linux....
  17.  
  18. Well, good docs certainly help, but the basic complexity is still there.
  19. Until the system itself is simplified, I'm afraid that writing docs is
  20. rather a band-aid solution.
  21.  
  22. I don't expect the system to actually be simplified, that would involve
  23. breaking some traditions, and people generally refuse to do that -
  24. occasionally with good reason, but more often out of habit.
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