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Unix: a viable standard for software engineering?
John Favaro
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Abstract
The catchword 'standard' has been used in conjunction with the Unix operating system with increasing frequency in recent times. This situation reflects a growing need among software developers for standards not merely at the programming language level, but at the level of the programming environment. Evidently, Unix has been perceived as the current best hope of achieving that goal. Yet there are significant obstacles to the standardisation of Unix. In this chapter we look at recent efforts toward the standardisation of Unix and examine some of the problem areas in detail.