[Gllug] Controversial Joel Spolsky article

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:33:37PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Richard Jones writes:
> 
> >http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html
> 
> It's so close to being a good article... and yet it falls down by missing
> the point. The Unix philosophy *isn't* to write program for other programmers.
> It's to design in a certain way (which happens to be liked by programmers),
> but that design philosphoy also has benefits for everyone else too, although
> it may be less immediately apparent.

I think what is missing in the article is the perspective of the systems
administrator.  This may be because he's never had any contact with any
sysadmins or because he's only had contact with Windows sysadmins, many
of whom have no more skills than his famous Aunt Madge.  Too many people
in PC computing don't perceive any real difference between maintaining
servers and fiddling with someone's home PC, so don't see the design
problems that make Windows a headache to admin.

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Bruce
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