mo@prisma (05/22/89)
Boy, are you confused. "Scout's Honor" programming environments are just stupid. One "boo-boo" by some new piece of code and your machine goes down in flames. Gee- my Macintosh does that ALREADY! On my Sun, if I screw up, I get a core dump, but my window system continues to run, my half-read mail isn't skrogged, the reply I was writing while the compile ran isn't lost, sessions on other machines doing work in the background don't crap-out, etc, etc. You get the idea. Ya know, it's really hard to understand what you find advantageous about returning to early 1960's OS technology. A good virtual memory implementation allows controlled sharing so you can have processes dicking with each others' insides if you wish. However, that is another matter. Having programmed in both worlds for a long, long time, if you wish to reinvent history, go right ahead, but PLEASE, don't even suggest inflicting that on everyone else, particularly in a world where 99.999999999999999% of the users are NOT hackers. The only reason people put up with it now is because they have been convinced it is one of those unavoidable facts of life. If they ever figure out how badly they've been had, someone is going to catch living Hell. -Mike