What I like about *nix is that it builds on the experience of 3 decades plus a lot more sound theory. Nobody has scrapped anything that is truly useful to cut corners and that is what I find impressive.
I don't think anything is served by a battle of the young guns versus the old codgers, but the young guns have more history to learn and, if they really learn it, age isn't an issue. It is all about knowledge. Someone once said that before you tear down a fence, you should learn why it was built in the first place. I guess that at 61, I am either an old young gun or turning in to a young old codger but I like to think about the future much more than the past because a lot of what is happening now is going to eventually be much better than it is now as long as we don't loose track of why certain design principles are just as necessary now as they were in 1968 or so when Unix began at Bell Labs. Martin McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201303051656.r25guijg053...@x.it.okstate.edu