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there is a certain originalist leaning among unix people where they believe that unix was a perfectly conceptualised design from the beginning, and that all we need to reach unix nirvana is just do things more like we used to

of course the reality is that everything is informed by the realities of its time, and computing these days looks nothing like what it did 20, 30, 40 odd years ago. keep what's good, chuck out what isn't