

No, the letter is X.
It’s like you aren’t even paying attention…


No, the letter is X.
It’s like you aren’t even paying attention…
Whatever else it might be, it is definitely not Unix.


Unlikely; they said man sudo, not woman sudo.


Is the COBOL committee still working under the assumption that it currently is and will always be the dominant language?


Put another way: what what do you like about uxntal in particular compared to the the other languages in the same family of concatenative languages?


The other thing he [emphasis mine] got wrong is “prompt complexity/coaxing”.
She, actually.


Yes, it is the scripting language of TempleOS.


I think you mean: it is one of the most brain dead comments you have ever hurd about Linux.


Cent O-S is com-ING, to TOWN!!!


That might have been an apt name at first, but the UX has come along way since the early days.
As someone who regularly has to deal with code that has been broken needlessly into smaller functions so that I have to constantly jump around to figure out what is going on, this really resonates with me.
The latest case was someone who took something that really only needed to be a single function and instead turned it into a class with a dozen tiny methods.


And thank god for that!


Yes, exactly, which as we all know stands for GIF Image Format.


So what would you name the category that includes Alpine Linux and Chimera Linux, as was brought up in the article?


It would have helped a lot if GNU weren’t such a weird acronym whose pronunciation is not at all obvious.


I guarantee this will have a comment 😄
You do know that, when you edit your comment to pretend that you had predicted something in advance, that there is a timestamp showing when you made the change, right?


Thank you for introducing needed some levity into the discussion. 😉


Those are all good points.


We’ve played this game with browser engines and we find ourselves in a world with no viable community-controlled browser.
Where would you say Firefox fits into this? (This question is not a gotchya; I am genuinely having trouble seeing whether it is a valid counter-example or not.)
I stand corrected.
Happy cake day!