They did boatloads of horrific things to save bytes. They radix encoded strings, created the y2k and 2038 problems, normalized redirecting output to /dev/null, passed raw text blocks through a fifo file buffer rather than properly tagged data, ditched proper exception handling and a bunch more listed in the Unix Hater’s Handbook
They did boatloads of horrific things to save bytes. They radix encoded strings, created the y2k and 2038 problems, normalized redirecting output to /dev/null, passed raw text blocks through a fifo file buffer rather than properly tagged data, ditched proper exception handling and a bunch more listed in the Unix Hater’s Handbook
https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
Now this looks like an interesting read. Thanks!
Kinda, but it’s pretty much all horrendously outdated bitching about superficial flaws in tools from 40 years ago.