The Unix Haters Handbook is mostly the X11 and csh haters handbook. And nobody has bothered to do a Windows Haters Handbook (or VMS or z/OS).
Although there are some less than ideal parts of Unix, many of which were fixed in Plan9. And cdecl is a lifesaver whenever I'm writing C.
Peter Ludemann
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