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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user Date: 13 Jun 1995 20:39:24 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3rkphc$ghm@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3qq5i8$2jj@anshar.shadow.net> <3qqotb$sla@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <D9nMI9.Lys@midway.uchicago.edu> <D9pJBs.KG4@plato.ds.boeing.com> <GPALMER.95Jun7001333@westhill.cdrom.com> <3r4f25$c5j@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <3r9t63$31c@anshar.shadow.net> <3rboo0$q5j@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <3rg9jv$2qf@pandora.sdsu.edu> <3rhckp$3n6@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <3rhln0$55a@pandora.sdsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) writes: >I have not seen anyone saying that "Unix >is inherently more difficult than its rivals" - probably because that is a >vacuous statement. Obviously you have not been reading this thread, which was started by someone (in fact more than one person) saying that Unix _was_ inherently difficult. The various programs listed were given as evidence of this. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland