Mastodawn

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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Carl Muckenhoupt

@lauren Reminds me of when Apple was labeling apps as "abandoned" and removing them from the app store if they didn't receive updates in a certain amount of time, and people objected "The word for that isn't 'abandoned', it's 'stable'"