Learning from history - The UNIX-Hater's Handbook

As the old adage goes, "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it."
Since Linux was initially just an attempt to create a copyright-free version
of UNIX, we need to look to UNIX for the source of the many of its
annoyances. You will find a wealth of material in the UNIX-Hater's Handbook
at http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf. This work was published in 1994,
just as Dee-Ann was getting interested in computers. Little has been done to
correct the deficiencies described therein except POSIX standardization of
the shell and some APIs.

Sadly, the lessons of this text are seldom taught in Universities. On a
recent tour of colleges with my son to select a computer science school, I
had a conversation with the Dean of Undergraduate CS studies at a
prestigious school. The Dean told us that the school focused on Linux,
Solaris and Java. I asked what my son might learn about new technologies
like C# and .NET during his four years at the school. "Nothing, if we can
help it!" was the answer.