I pasted just the part about ICCCM, because it directly addressed the point I was trying to make, and it doesn't have link anchors. I didn't assume everyone would want to wade through the entire document to get to the part about ICCCM. If most people already read all of that Unix-Haters chapter which I wrote in 1993, then that's news to me. Obviously the guy who repeatedly parroted the 20-some-year-old discredited "Mechanism not Policy" line hadn't read my criticism.
But don't lose any sleep over it: computer networks and storage devices are fast and large enough these days that it's not going to cause any meltdowns, so it's more important to save people time, than to conserve the bandwidth and disk space consumed by a few lines of text. Sorry to have wasted YOUR time that it took you to post a complaint.
No need to apologize, I was just genuinely curious. Considering you wrote it yourself, that makes it more of a discussion in my eyes. Bandwidth was never the issue. No hard feelings :)
I loved the Unix Hater's Handbook. Still have the book, still have the barf bag. Still think it's one of the best books on operating systems design ever written.
But don't lose any sleep over it: computer networks and storage devices are fast and large enough these days that it's not going to cause any meltdowns, so it's more important to save people time, than to conserve the bandwidth and disk space consumed by a few lines of text. Sorry to have wasted YOUR time that it took you to post a complaint.