That was a sad thing to read, the author is so clueless they don't even know when the reasons they imagine something might have been broken are wrong.
Back when UNIX was born the <tab> character was a first class citizen in every computer on the planet, and many languages used it as part of their syntax. Static binaries were invented when Sun and Berkeley co-developed shared libraries and there needed to be binaries that you knew would work before shared libraries were available (during boot before things were all mounted, during recovery, etc)
It always amazed me when someone looks at computer systems of the 70's through the lens of "today's" technology and then projects a failure of imagination on the part of those engineers back in the 70's. I pointed out to such a person that the font file for Courier (60 - 75K depending) was more than the entire system memory (32KW or 64KB) that you could boot 2.1BSD in.
Back when UNIX was born the <tab> character was a first class citizen in every computer on the planet, and many languages used it as part of their syntax. Static binaries were invented when Sun and Berkeley co-developed shared libraries and there needed to be binaries that you knew would work before shared libraries were available (during boot before things were all mounted, during recovery, etc)
It always amazed me when someone looks at computer systems of the 70's through the lens of "today's" technology and then projects a failure of imagination on the part of those engineers back in the 70's. I pointed out to such a person that the font file for Courier (60 - 75K depending) was more than the entire system memory (32KW or 64KB) that you could boot 2.1BSD in.
Such sillyness.