[comp.misc] Convenience and Regret

barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (12/07/90)

In article <PH.90Dec6000610@sparc3.ama.caltech.edu> ph@sparc3.ama.caltech.edu (Paul Hardy) writes:
>ITS hackers also used to say "Unix: a moment of convenience, a lifetime of
>regret."  (I wonder if it will turn out to be true :-).  Unix types nowadays
>say that about MS-DOS.

On a related note: Lisp hackers used to say "Lisp: a lifetime of
convenience, a moment of regret."
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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