Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.