UNIXが嫌いな理由

アンチWindowsな人もいれば，当然アンチUNIXな人もいる．オンラインで読める2つの文章を紹介しよう．アンチというよりは，自虐的な雰囲気だが．

  • 10 Things I Hate About (U)NIX
    1. Everything Is a File (Unless It Isn't)
    2. Everything Is Text
    3. No Introspection
    4. X11: Almost a GUI
    5. Standard Input, Standard Output
    6. Synchronous System Calls
    7. One-Way System Calls
    8. C: Cross-Platform PDP Assembler
    9. Small Tools, Not Small Libraries
    10. In-Band Signaling as Standard
  • The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
    1. Unix. The World's First Computer Virus
    2. Welcome, New User! Like Russian Roulette with Six Bullets Loaded
    3. Documentation? What Documentation?
    4. Mail. Don't Talk to Me, I'm Not a Typewriter
    5. Snoozenet. I Post, Therefore I Am
    6. Terminal Insanity. Curses! Foiled Again!
    7. The X-Windows Disaster. How to Make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC
    8. csh, pipes, and find. Power Tools for Power Fools
    9. Programming. Hold Still, This Won't Hurt a Bit
    10. C++. The COBOL of the 90s
    11. System Administration. Unix's Hidden Cost
    12. Security. Oh, I'm Sorry, Sir, Go Ahead, I didn't Realize You Were Root
    13. The File System. Sure It Corrupts Your Files, But Look How Fast It Is!
    14. NFS. Nightmare File System

ちょうどredditに投稿されていたが，日本語で書かれたこの手の文章には，
UNIXの落とし穴とか初心者をまどわす UNIX 7 不思議ってのがある．