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Unix is a legacy mess. The sooner we rid ourselves of this scourge, the better.

Posted from a productive Windows workstation.



You couldn't pay me enough to go back to doing dev work on Windows.


As if Windows isn’t its own legacy mess..


I feel that Windows Registry is similar legacy cruft as environment variables. Worse yet, most software doesn't document which registry keys it's using, so you have to find them on some ancient forum comment or do the detective work by yourself.




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