SitePoint: Rediscovering the Obvious

"Been plowing through The Art of Unix Programming, which, in general, is excellent--should be required reading for anyone developing software.

"Joel Spolsky wrote a good critique under the title Biculturalism, at the end of last year, and agree that Eric S. Raymond does seem to be occasionally (but not always) unreasonably blinded / biased against Windows and the notion of GUIs.

"One particular example crops up in his discussion of documentation, where I feel he underrates the value of WYSIWYG editors, even when used to edit structural markup (vs. presentational), where it serves as a form of code generator..."

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