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  • I watched this happen in a research institution in the early 2000s. Scientists who had been heavy SGI, Sun, or HP customers realized that they could get a lot more bang for their buck with beige-box PCs running Linux (or occasionally FreeBSD). Aside from up-front costs, hardware upgrades and replacements were much cheaper and easier to get for PCs.

    The big Unix vendors did not help their reputation when they started selling Windows machines — which all of them except Sun did in that era. It became increasingly clear that commercial Unix for scientific computing no longer had a future.


    • The compiler hates you
    • The compiler sees nothing wrong with your code and is just giving error messages to look busy
    • The compiler was written by a maniac with a semicolon fixation
    • The compiler could optimize your code, but it’s just not feeling it today
    • The compiler wonders why you can’t match braces right like your brother does
    • The compiler had a torrid affair with a Perl interpreter in 2006
    • The compiler likes big butts and cannot lie
    • The compiler wants to grow up to be an IDE but hasn’t told its parents they need to send it to GUI school yet
    • The compiler reads Nazis on Twitter but only to make fun of them
    • The compiler works for the Servants of Cthulhu