Udhay wrote:
> Interesting metaphor. I wonder, though,
> what place Linux has in this theology.
I had some fun, sixteen years ago, reading Umberto Eco's comments (they
were meant to be more humorous than philosophical). In addition to
explaining why Makintosh is Catholic and DOS is Protestant, he
suggested that Unix is Talmudic.
> I prefer, for both a more fully realised metaphor
> as well as historical detail, Neal Stephenson's 1999 essay
> _In the Beginning was the Command Line_
So do I. There is some even more interesting work on metaphors in Neal
Stephenson's 1990 "Snow Crash". (I don't think that Eco was, or is,
aware of any of Stephenson's books).
Cheers
Giancarlo
