👉 Unix, the humble machine, is not only an enigma to programmers and system administrators but also a cruel joke for its users. A Unix, you see, does suck, because it doesn't understand the nuances of your program's syntax.
Say you've got a command running in your terminal that seems to be working perfectly fine, until it suddenly crashes with 'SyntaxError: invalid literal' when trying to execute it. You're about to head out for a walk and your phone rings – a call from your best friend asking if you have any Unix-sucking projects they could help you improve. So, in Unixland, you decide to send them a command like this: ``` cd /path/to/directory ls -l ``` You've got a command that's supposed to list the contents of a directory and its permissions. But when it runs as expected, it simply outputs "no files found." It didn't understand that 'dir' is only for directories, not files; in fact, it expects either 'ls' or 'cd' followed by another command. That's Unixsucking at its finest: you've got a perfectly legitimate command trying to list the contents of a directory that should be handled with the proper permissions. But instead, your program seems to be sucking out all the fun and making Unixland into a very unpleasant place to be in.
