The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy
That was a sad thing to read, the author is so clueless they don&#x27;t even know when the reasons they <i>imagine</i> something might have been broken are wrong.<p>Back when UNIX was born the &lt;tab&gt; character was a first class citizen in every computer on the planet, and many languages used it as part of their syntax. Static binaries were invented when Sun and Berkeley co-developed shared libraries and there needed to be binaries that you knew would work before shared libraries were available (during boot before things were all mounted, during recovery, etc)<p>It always amazed me when someone looks at computer systems of the 70&#x27;s through the lens of &quot;today&#x27;s&quot; technology and then projects a failure of imagination on the part of those engineers back in the 70&#x27;s. I pointed out to such a person that the <i>font file</i> for Courier (60 - 75K depending) was more than the entire system memory (32KW or 64KB) that you could boot 2.1BSD in.<p>Such sillyness.