Dan Cross writes:
That's a bit unfair. One can understand something
and see value in it and
still appreciate its limitations.
Fork has served us well for more than five decades; I've got no argument
with that. However, should we never question whether it continues to be the
right, or best, abstraction as the environment around it continues to
evolve?
Oh, sorry, wasn't meaning to be categorical there. Main reason that it came
to mind was John's web example; many have said in the past that the UNIX
model couldn't do that until they figured out that it actually could.