I decided to do a e-spring clean and get rid of some old stuff i wrote but never put on-line. this is an old unfinished rant of the pre-2.0 days that is still somewhat applicable (circa 2001, i think). i got an even older one about emacs coming out very soon:-D
once again i realized how much i hate hp-ux. every so often i tend to forget it - maybe because i spend a period away from it - but it never lasts that long. it makes me think i'm using a bare-bones sys V of ken thompson's day (i swear sometimes i can see ken patching the kernel in the corner). i'm sure it must have lots of merits in many areas that i am totally ignorant about, but: