NAME

quotes — the only thing worse than a standard is violating one

SYNOPSIS

https://posix.fail/quotes.html

QUOTES

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

— Rob Pike

“The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.”

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“The POSIX rules are so outrageously dumb---for example, they require that 2100 be a leap year, contradicting the Gregorian calendar---that no self-respecting engineer would obey them.”

— Daniel J Bernstein

“The POSIX working group is staunchly opposed to invention.”

— Nick Stroughton

“[POSIX] ...illustrates the clumsiness of an environment designed by committee.”

— Rob Pike

“It is not possible to use echo portably across all POSIX systems.”

— POSIX.1-2024, echo(1)

“This does not mean that only POSIX-conforming makefiles will be accepted.”

— GNU Make Manual, .POSIX: special target

“The entire world went to POSIX, and that's all this code needs to support.”

— Theo de Raadt

“A partial re-implementation of POSIX requirements is [...] worse than no implementation at all.”

— FreeBSD mailing list

“Ambiguity caused by the modulo 256 operation is unfortunate, but required due to historical implementation behavior.”

— POSIX.1-2024, Rationale for Shell and Utilities

“This incompatibility is required by ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (POSIX.1).”

— FreeBSD, getpgrp(2)

“The bare POSIX specification is clearly insufficient to define useful system behavior.”

— Valeria Aurora