Am Dienstag, den 11.03.2008, 02:00 -0700 schrieb Christophe:
> The effect of free software is a general regression.
>
> Linux : zero innovation,
O(1) scheduler. Automatic software packaging systems with dependency
tracking. User-space file systems.
No innovation? You must be kidding. Or clueless. Or paid.
> cannibalism of Unix
Right.
> Java : absolute regression compared to lisp, Smalltalk, Actor, Forth,
> Rebol, Haskell, OCaml.
Yes, and everybody was using these when Java was invented, since nobody
was even considering using C++ despites its elegance and almost-flat
learning curve. And Java has been killing the competition.
Oh, and all of the languages you have enumerated above were developed,
at great cost, by a company that has gone bankrupt. Java is Evil, you're
soo totally right.
Regards,
Jo
Joachim Durchholz <··@durchholz.org> writes:
> Am Dienstag, den 11.03.2008, 02:00 -0700 schrieb Christophe:
>> The effect of free software is a general regression.
>>
>> Linux : zero innovation,
>
> O(1) scheduler. Automatic software packaging systems with dependency
> tracking. User-space file systems.
>
> No innovation? You must be kidding. Or clueless. Or paid.
Which of these were *originated* on Linux, as opposed to originating
on earlier systems, and being recreated atop Linux?
- I believe QNX had an O(1) scheduler as far back as the 1980s, and
the requirement is common across RTOSes, so I wouldn't think this
is likely to have been "innovated by Linux."
- I'd agree that the widespread availability of lots of "libre
software" needing to be packaged has led to there being some
innovations relating to software packaging systems.
- Plan 9 had a notion of user space filesystems, and there are a
number of things in Linux that have been very consciously inspired by
Plan 9.
That implies that Plan 9 was innovative, in this area, not Linux.
Linux was derivative...
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