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Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online
prostoalex writes "The Unix-Haters Handbook, publication year 1994, is now available online for free as a single PDF file. Apparently some suburban Seattle company has agreed to host this 3.5MB file on its servers. The anti-foreword is written by no other but Dennis Ritchie, who proclaims: 'Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But
it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.'" This is what should happen to more out-of-print books.
the entire book is there
It's hosted on microsoft.com.... is anyone surprised?
First Crybaby statement:
A) Cryptic Command Names. Still there in Linux ALIAS to something easier you dolt
Yeah, let's try to cover up the problem.
Second Crybaby statement:
It is amazing how much training it takes in UNIX to do something simple in Windows. Like grepping a text delimited file and piping its output into awk or sed from a simple command prompt? Or storing that information in a simple system variable to be used by a C program compiled on gcc for whatever reason you need? How dumb is you!
A real crushing blow there.
Third Crybaby statement:
D) The X-Windows Disaster. X-Windows is what first made me question UNIX's superiority. Dang X sucks. Bad. What a mess! "Motif Self-Abuse Kit" made me laugh because my brief experience programming Motif was one of the worst in my life. It was a mess of void pointers and pointers to functions that was an absolute pain to program.
It's Open Source bigshot college educated programmer, weren't you bright enough to FIX the problems or just whine because thats what you can do?
In other words, you had no argument and so resorted to the tired "fix-it-yourself" mantra that never stops being invalid or intellectually lazy.
Last Crybaby statement that prooves no programmer wrote this:
And your statement "prooves" an illiterate is writing it.
I've never found a make that I liked. You should not have to spend hours programming the freakin makefile. Nor should you have to debug whitespace because you have an extra space or tab.
Riiiiiiiiiight, everything should work perfectly the first time with only minutes invested regardless of the complexity of the code and how many source/header files you are trying to link up with that makefile.
You're right. Things should not work perfectly the first time. Way to decimate his argument.
Maybe you need to go back and put some real work into that useless piece of paper you got, cuz buddy you are a programmer like George W. Bush is a Scholar and Genius.
Next time, come around when you actually have any points to argue.
You Twit
"Twit" is a word of the mentally weak.
Next.
"Sufferin' succotash."
You get a vague idea that what the authors really favour is the old Lisp Machines - like the kind RMS used to hack on before starting GNU.
Yup, actually the only part I could read today was the preface, which contained an e-mail complaining about not having symbols compiled into system libraries and not having it hooked up to the source. By that standard I think BSD & Linux would compare favorably to Windows, eh? Just install from ports or portage and add -g3... or er, take over a large nation pro-US nation and sign over your soul for "Shared Source."