In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.
When in doubt, use brute force.
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.