Software Books and Brew discussion

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UNIX is the one true way!

So it was noted in conversation that we are conducting a sort of archaeological dig into the history of computers and software development if we look at this book in context to the Mythical Man-Month. MMM was written in an era of mainframe computers where the computer hardware and the Operating System that it ran were typically developed together and intimately tied together. The development and adoption of Unix in the late 1960's started something of a Renaissance period where software could be developed (at least at a source code level if not binary compatibility) against a stable API and that a core basic set of programs and services could be easily compiled and run on the new computer without massive reinvention.

Another discussion was started offline regarding the Author's assertions about "Unix Programmers ..." and that the commenter believes this to be traits of Windows Programmers due to his experience in that tribe.
I put forth for discussion this: Has it always been true of windows programmers ( particularly in the early 2000s when this book was penned) and our Author's personal bias is coloring his view, or has the more modern Era of programming influenced Windows programmers to think this way?

Rich wrote: "Another discussion was started offline regarding the Author's assertions about "Unix Programmers ..." and that the commenter believes this to be traits of Windows Programmers due to his experience ..."

Given that Windows programmers were educated at University where most programming at least as of 2000 was done on workstations running some flavor of Unix, how could that generation of programmer not have incorporated concepts from the Unix world into their work?

Rich wrote: "Another discussion was started offline regarding the Author's assertions about "Unix Programmers ..." and that the commenter believes this to be traits of Windows Programmers due to his experience ..."

Chapter 3 of the book provides the author's context for this discussion, where he lays the topic's foundation of how an OS might affect a programmers style. Although the book will of course stand biased for the Unix side, it does provide food for thought on why this contrast might exist in the first place.