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C++32’s std::ui will solve that.

I think it’s a syndrome that attacks programming language enthusiasts.

C++ is perhaps the worst case, but C and Python also suffer badly. Java, C#, and Swift perhaps too.

Once a language reaches broad adoption, it should be frozen. If you want to make changes, then feel free to call it something else. The only good reason for standards committees is to resolve ambiguities in the initial specification.

It’s a misapplication of skills and interests. Language people want to add new stuff, fix old stuff, and make their language universally applicable. Putting them in charge of the spec is bound to end in a C++ style disaster.

VMS people, am I right in remembering that there’s a standard “library” which does globbing, so while it’s done in every tool, they at least do it consistently?

Unix used to have a glob command, rather than building it into the shells (and the C library). I think it was 7th edition that added it directly to Bourne shell.

Things "with no connection to creating market value" or that "no businessperson would consider engaging" are perfectly valid subjects for education.

If you want job training, get certifications.

If like to point out that word processors existed well before DOS, and that DOS itself didn’t exist until many years into the personal computer revolution.

To this day there are people who still use Wordstar, for instance.

You claimed that Russia invaded because its leader felt his hand was forced. You have offered no explanation of how it was "forced" to invade a sovereign neighbor.

I contend that it chose to invade because its leader wants to integrate Ukraine into the Russian Federation, and offered this as evidence of that desire. I think that contradicts your statement as to the true rationale for the invasion.

AI has been a thing for decades

Yes.

The US is choosing to leverage its position without much concern for those consequences right now. The rest of the world is busy routing around that, and the leverage is slowly reducing.

It will take time: the US was a key member of the world economy. But there’s frequent new reminders of why it’s necessary.

Tariff European products. Cut off access to payment networks. Stop sharing satellite imagery.

There’s a lot of things the rest of the world has no or bad backups for.

Freedom Fries redux

For sure. But Sun had great engineers, and it was a feature that I'd argue was visibly existential at the time.

An IDE, form designer, language, runtime, and database engine.

People used it to write business applications. Like Microsoft Access, or Visual Basic.

It started as a competitor to dBase II/III called FoxBase, and then Microsoft bought it.

Yes, Kerberos is a direct import, although extended quite a bit. AD is a lot more than Hesiod, but AFS is a lot more than SMB. Zephyr didn't make it over.

There was an opportunity to build out graphical management tools, but NIS+ kinda got in the way, and the politics of commercial Unix in general didn't help.