[TUHS] [tuhs] The Unix shell: a 50-year view

[Andy Kosela]

On 7/2/21, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> As I started reading it I found plenty to disagree with in the first few
> paragraphs but they completely lost me at "After all, moving from System
> V init scripts to systemd has arguably improvedthe Linux boot sequence."
>
> Um, no, just, no.

They come from the same "modern" camp of cloud fanatics that claim
"there was no automation before Ansible and no containerization before
Docker".  They also think that C is obsolete and your software stack
is useless if you don't include a dozen or so flashy bleeding edge
technologies and programming languages.

This is the kind of techno-cult fashion that Nikolai Bezroukov warned
about.  In the last few years we have seen more and more "papers" that
debunk and mock older stable Unix technologies because they want to
forcefully push their agenda and their new marketing terms.  We have
seen this with systemd which was forcefully pushed down on us; we have
seen this with Ansible, etc.

This vandalization of Unix already took place and I do not see a clear
way out of this situation.

--Andy