[X-Unix] rsync & ssh

[Stroller]

On Jul 7, 2004, at 7:49 pm, William H. Magill wrote:

>>> From: Stroller <MacMonster at myrealbox.com>
>>> Unix is *horribly* obscure & complex, and for no good reason other 
>>> than
>>> compatibility with legacy systems.
>
> Untrue. The complexity of Unix has nothing to do with compatibility.  
> (And you would be amazed at how little compatibility exists with 
> "legacy systems." When was the last time you used either Pascal or 
> Lisp, let alone Fortran or Cobol under Unix?)

I would regard there to be something inherently legacy about a 
command-line for which many of the principal tools are still called 
according to the whims of the authors who conceived them twenty or 
thirty years ago.

Stroller.