On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:04:46PM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> The "old" design you talk about comes from UNIX
> concepts which power all the iThings, Androids and
> Kindles you most probably use and adore yourself.
> 
of course somebody had to say that.
i call BullShit! on it.
the Unix Philosophy ™ is good for automating things at the command line.
it's the single reason why i instantly wish myself back to a linux box
when i'm forced to do development work on a windows machine.
however, the unix philosophy (at least as actually lived by its strict
adherents) *totally* fails the requirements of modern end-user
computing: complex, highly interactive, multimedial, event-driven
applications. that can be used by normal people. that's why the unix
heritage of osx and android is utterly irrelevant and largely unknown to
the users: everything that matters to them has been substituted. also
under the hood. what remains are the kernels and some designs that can
only be called solid sofware engineering (and not something that unix
could reasonably claim for itself).