>>10-11Anything is better than UNIX. All that talk about ``portability'' really means
they set the standards[1] and get to rewrite history based on popularity. Universities are full of UNIX shills disguised as professors, saying that improving computing is not worth doing, or not even possible. They no longer teach that UNIX and C are bad knock-offs of better operating systems and languages, not even at the universities that developed these operating systems and languages! In some cases, they are teaching languages that were worse than what they used in the 70s! UNIX and C destroyed the diversity of hardware, and hardware research in general, which is why everything takes orders of magnitude more time than it should, computer time and programmer time. There are ways to design a machine that can make assembly more productive than Lisp, Haskell, and JavaScript (or anything else you can think of) on today's computers. These machines won't be able to run C and UNIX at all. They would be able to run languages that don't assume memory works in a specific way, like FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL, and BASIC.
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http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/wp-0897.html