"At first Linus created /dev/dsp, and the user did smile upon him, and the user did see that it was good, and the user did see that it was simple, and people did use their sound, and people did pipe in and out sound as they did please, and Ken Thompson Shined upon them for following the way"
"Then the fiends got in on it and ruined it all, with needless complexities and configurations and situationships, with servers and daemons, and server and daemon wrappers to wrap the servers and daemons, and wrappers for those server wrappers, and then came security permissions for the server wrapper wrapper wrappers, why doesn't my sound work anymore, and then the server wrapper server wrapper wrapper server did need to be managed for massive added complexity, so initd was replaced by systemd, which solves the server wrapper wrapper server server wrapper through a highly complicated system of servers and services and wrappers"
RIP /dev/dsp you will be missed
- Kernighan 3:16