Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini wrote:
I think that we should not underestimate the transforming power of dogged
determination.
Think of Linux: only a terminal idiot could have conceived the plan of writing
from scratch a clone of a 20 years old operating system (Unix) when everybody
knew that momentum was on the side of the weaker solution (Microsoft) in the
PC market and on the many existing commercial Unix versions in the
professional market.
Well, we all know what that stupid idea has led to. I certainly do, as I am
writing this message under Linux.
That reminds me... Somebody should write an *OS* in Haskell! :-D
If that happened, then maybe at last I'd be able to have a choice other
than M$ Windows (with all it's well-documented faults), and Unix (with
its legendary unfriendliness and unecessary complexity).
OTOH... how the heck do you write an operating system in a language that
doesn't even support I/O? :-S
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