We no longer have dinosaurs like LISP-M or TOPS-10 for the Unix-haters to get rose-colored nostalgia for.
And Windows NT proved how terrible the alternative could be. The NT api and Powershell is basically the "Monkey's-Paw" version of what the authors wanted. Be careful what you wish for.
Strong disagree. NT and the 'Windows way' is IMO superior to the UNIX model where everything is a bag of bytes.
Actually try programming against the NT kernel, the Windows API, and try to use PowerShell seriously (without complaining about 'long commands'.
It's been a while since I last ready the book, but ironically, it helped me learn some UNIX concepts that had eluded me before.
Well, Linux has.
Unix is the same old: when you log in to any of it (BSD, Solaris, AIX, ...), it's like a time machine back to 1990.
It's no longer positioned as a server OS, which on the surface just looks like a business move, but I suspect it's because the kernel and surrounding environment aren't very good. The writing was on the wall for years.
Linux is getting worse. The freedesktop.org cancer is eating it from the inside (systemd, wayland).
Well, the Unix Haters complained about it! Let's see, what did they write:
• “Being small and simple is more important than being complete and correct.” • “You only have to solve 90% of the problem.” • “Everything is a stream of bytes.”
Well, everything is still a stream of bytes. The problems are maybe 95% solved, and things are no longer small or simple.
E.g. could no longer have your kernel on one floppy disc, and a rescue image with glibc + utilities on another.