Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

Caches aren't architecture, they're just optimization.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return

Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.

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.