After venting my spleen, above, I tried to figure out why I don't have the same reaction to POSIX that I have to Java.
Part of it is that Unix has a rather different philosophy. Part of it is that Unix seems to be better designed.
But I think the deeper answer is: I'm ready and waiting to develop an allergy to POSIX, if and when a pragmatic
alternative appears. There is plenty of fuel for its funeral pyre: Where do you think I honed my own platform-griping skills? By reading The Unix Haters Handbook, which is really old by now.
But the difference between Java and Unix is that there are alternatives to Java. I'm sufficiently pragmatic that, if compelled to solve a problem with nothing but a roll of barbed wire, I'll learn all about barbed wire. And if I didn't have alternative means to solve my
problems I'd probably try to love Java as well.
Part of it is that Unix has a rather different philosophy. Part of it is that Unix seems to be better designed.
But I think the deeper answer is: I'm ready and waiting to develop an allergy to POSIX, if and when a pragmatic alternative appears. There is plenty of fuel for its funeral pyre: Where do you think I honed my own platform-griping skills? By reading The Unix Haters Handbook, which is really old by now.
But the difference between Java and Unix is that there are alternatives to Java. I'm sufficiently pragmatic that, if compelled to solve a problem with nothing but a roll of barbed wire, I'll learn all about barbed wire. And if I didn't have alternative means to solve my problems I'd probably try to love Java as well.