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Decent article, but I think that Joel should have worked in a reference to Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning Was the Command Line" as well.
by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Decent article, but I think that Joel should have worked in a reference to Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning Was the Command Line" as well.
- angusgr 17y agoThanks for referencing that, I'd never actually heard of it: http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.shtml http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/C_R_Y_P_T_O_N_O_M_I_C_O_N.sht...
- blasdel 17y agoThank god, as that's easily the worst thing Stephenson's ever written -- like a rambling inept Slashdot comment, but stretched to 160 pages -- it's even structured around an extended simile between user interfaces and fictional automobiles, for fuck's sake! On top of all that, it has the misfortune of being written at the worst possible point in time: * too long after mainframes, minicomputers, or basic micros * right before the death of BeOS (which he was infatuated with) * right as Apple is about to die from its own bullshit * long after NeXT has faded from relevancy but before the buyout * In Linux's middle-aged (~2.2) years when a lot of things were bogged down in wank -- well after the initial excitement, but well before BK and git
- rbanffy 17y agoI'll take the worst Stephenson over the best Spolsky any day, thanks.
- socillion 17y agoLinux = Tanks (made by hippies) Win '95 = Commie Win NT = Intended for *industrial users* "Apple" = Black Box BeOS = Batmobile Browser = Reagan. What? He could maybe work on some of the metaphors, though I got a good laugh out of it.