On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:19:42PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > Agreed. Traditionally, however, Unix has not been in the practice of > being easy to use. We should be careful, not hidebound.
That depends. Once upon a time, security wasn't much of an issue, and ease of use for the casual user was a significant priority. Of course, at that time, the casual user community was mostly developers and computer science academics, and we're still fighting a few battles to close security holes which were left open from back then. [I'm thinking of stuff like sendmail wizard mode, internet protocols, and fixed length buffers.] -- Raul