Unicorns and Unixes

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that fork(2) is bad. Thirty years from now, there will still be a fork(2) and a pipe(2) and a exec(2) and smart people will still be using them to solve hard problems reliably and predictably, just like they were thirty years ago.

via tomayko.com

Network programming is fun. I also wish it were a little less painful, at times, but that comes more when you try to get tricky with event loops, non-blocking connects, &c.