Comments on: What’s broken with Unix? How would you fix it? Part I http://venturecake.com/whats-broken-with-unix-how-would-you-fix-it-part-i/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:48:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Stephen http://venturecake.com/whats-broken-with-unix-how-would-you-fix-it-part-i/#comment-2754 Stephen Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:33:36 +0000 http://venturecake.com/whats-broken-with-unix-how-would-you-fix-it-part-i/#comment-2754 <p>I think your answer would be marked as a fail. The questions are primarily philosophical, not mechanical.</p> <p><em><strong>Ed:</strong>Philosophy has no value without application. Ted Nelson provides a good example of that. Additionally, most humans grasp a concept more easily if they can see an example implementation of that concept.</em></p> I think your answer would be marked as a fail. The questions are primarily philosophical, not mechanical.

Ed:Philosophy has no value without application. Ted Nelson provides a good example of that. Additionally, most humans grasp a concept more easily if they can see an example implementation of that concept.

]]> By: Martin http://venturecake.com/whats-broken-with-unix-how-would-you-fix-it-part-i/#comment-2753 Martin Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:42:47 +0000 http://venturecake.com/whats-broken-with-unix-how-would-you-fix-it-part-i/#comment-2753 NeXTSTEP, GNUSTEP, and Mac OS X have addressed some of these issues already. Take a look at [hdiutil][1]. Input options and the output can be specified with the [Property-list format][2], so you don't resort to grep to parse results. Though plist files are usually XML, the [defaults][3] editing tool hides that from you. You work with arrays, dictionaries, and atomic types (bool, int, etc). It all works together. [1]: http://www.hmug.org/man/1/hdiutil.php [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defaults_%28software%29 NeXTSTEP, GNUSTEP, and Mac OS X have addressed some of these issues already. Take a look at [hdiutil][1]. Input options and the output can be specified with the [Property-list format][2], so you don’t resort to grep to parse results. Though plist files are usually XML, the [defaults][3] editing tool hides that from you. You work with arrays, dictionaries, and atomic types (bool, int, etc). It all works together.

[1]: http://www.hmug.org/man/1/hdiutil.php
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defaults_%28software%29

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