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Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

Posted Nov 23, 2010 18:50 UTC (Tue) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
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Hey, thanks for mentioning me, Neil. I should probably mention that Norm Hardy wrote the original paper.

P.S. I really enjoy this series. Ghosts are a lot less scary in the light!


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Ghosts of Unix past, part 4: High-maintenance designs

Posted Nov 23, 2010 21:24 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

And thank you - the context and conclusions are a little different to mine, but the imagery is an exact match, I just couldn't pass it up.
I always like including literary references from varied sources, but it seems particularly appropriate in an article on 'patterns' as each literary reference is itself a kind of pattern.

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