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by plinkplonk
6022 days ago
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""Linux: written by amateurs for amateurs." - D. Presotto" This is (in a strict sense) true and is not the same as "linux is crap". Linus was certainly an amateur when he wrote the first version of the kernel in the sense that was the first OS kernel he wrote) and many people who contribute are not tenured professors(or whatever your definition of "professional" happens to be). The fact remains that an "amateur" teenager in Finland ran rings around the "professionals". "That the technical merit of the language doesn't determine it's popularity. So choosing what is the "better language" is rendered pointless." I agree. But that is the point isn't it? You can't choose "the better language" anyway. The mythical Lisp OS isn't really "better" either unless you've made up your mind up front. So why go on and on for years (the blogger not you)about "everything popular is crap and Lisp is the ultimate leet cool thing forever and forever and anyone who doesn't accept this is an idiot" instead of focussing on actually writing some code? |
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I don't know which professionals rings around were run, but again, who cares, that's just conjecture, the conjuncture was between a need for a free Unix, BSD sat in court, the GPL, LAMP. The result was the cartesian product that remains today.
In the world of worse is better, Plan9 wasn't bad enough !