[osol-discuss] Interesting blog entry on Solaris 10

[Bryan Cantrill]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:09:42PM +0530, Venky wrote:
> I had this blog forwarded to me:
> http://nb.inode.co.nz/articles/Solaris10_Evaluation.html
> 
> Hidden among the rants are some interesting points about Solaris 10.

If they're there, they're pretty well hidden in the mindless invective.
And frankly, it's not clear from reading the blog entry that he has ever 
actually _used_ Solaris 10; he took a course on it, but to me it's very
suspicious that he "doesn't have a Sol10 machine online" to show the 
output of a particular D script -- and that the D script itself that was
copied verbatim from my recent ACM Queue article.  And speaking only for
DTrace, his attack on D is completely ill-informed, showing a fundamental
misunderstanding of the constraints on the problem.  I don't object to not
understanding the problem that we solved -- but one should be careful about
throwing around words like "half-baked", let alone "CRAPPY" and "UGLY"
(yes, in all caps), when weighing in on something that one understands so
little...

To sum, I would borrow from Dennis Ritchie's anti-forward from the "UNIX
Hater's Handbook":  this blog entry is like excrement -- it may contain
some nutritional nuggets, but it is hardly a tasty pie...

	- Bryan

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