Lauren Weinstein4d ago

There are basically two ways to look at the fact that we're still using many of the same command line tools today that originated on UNIX of around half a century ago:

1) Serious stagnation
2) Ken and Dennis and the rest of the gang in the Bell Labs MH1127 lab, etc. got it right

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@lauren I don't think they got it "right" as much as they got it "right enough" - to the point where the effort to transition to a better set of tools would not be worth the benefit.
cf. Neal Stephenson's thesis about the reasons for "Innovation Starvation"
Mar 20 at 4:09pmWeb