Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini wrote:
I think that we should not underestimate the transforming power of dogged determination.
Think of Linux: only a terminal idiot could have conceived the plan of writing from scratch a clone of a 20 years old operating system (Unix) when everybody knew that momentum was on the side of the weaker solution (Microsoft) in the PC market and on the many existing commercial Unix versions in the professional market.
Well, we all know what that stupid idea has led to. I certainly do, as I am writing this message under Linux.
That reminds me... Somebody should write an *OS* in Haskell! :-D If that happened, then maybe at last I'd be able to have a choice other than M$ Windows (with all it's well-documented faults), and Unix (with its legendary unfriendliness and unecessary complexity). OTOH... how the heck do you write an operating system in a language that doesn't even support I/O? :-S