11 Oct
2019
11 Oct
'19
5:23 a.m.
On Thursday, October 10, 2019, 4:55:58 PM EDT, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
So I'll kick off another thread. What was your
"ahah" moment when you
first saw that Unix was special, especially compared to the systems you'd
previously used?
For me, it was reading the source code on 6th Ed.
Seeing the elegance, simplicity, and beauty was
like seeing the Mona Lisa for the first time or
hearing Beethoven's 9th for the first time.
To this day, I still remember looking through some
of the userland code and saw that who figured out
if you use it in "who am i" just by looking at argc.
Using as "who are you" or "who really cares" was
fun, but the real effect was realizing how much
more I'd understand by reading code than by reading
documentation.
BLS