The Collapse of the UNIX Philosophy.
In the first part of the article, I will enumerate lots of UNIX cheap and dirty hacks, and other various drawbacks. In the second part, we’ll talk about the UNIX philosophy. This article was written hastily, and I don’t want to further improve it. You’re lucky I wrote it. Therefore, I may provide some facts without source links. Dirty hacks in UNIX started to arise when UNIX was released, and it was long before Windows came to the scene, I guess there wasn’t even Microsoft DOS at the time (I guess and I don’t bother to check, so check it yourself).

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