Please assume a time gap of two weeks to one month from the previous article mal, a truth is revealed

A multitude of people had gathered at the tutorial organized by the mal corporation on unix and the mallanguage. We had arranged the tutorial to be held on the shady slope of a local hill. This was as a part of mal corporation's recent initiative to generate public awareness about computers. Not only did we have a great difficulty in obtaining and fixing a projector and screen at the site, but the shiny patches of sunlight oozing through the gaps in the tree above, was disturbing.

The guru was clad in a white mund~ and jubba. He calmly spoke at length about the mal language and its underlying philosophy. He also spoke about how to use the mal language in a unix system and some simple commands.

One fellow asked the guru. "Hi most venerable master, I have a sun sparc work station at home running unix and I still feel quite ignorant about the structure of unix. I feel as if (hesitates) as if a dog with a muzhuttha thEngA.

The guru calmly asked him to bring him a muzhuttha thEngA and a koduvAL. "puzhingiya kOzhimottyayAlum mathi"-guru called back after him.

Within fifteen minutes he managed to bring a thEnga. As people waited anxiously, guru husked it. and said in this manner. "The structure of unix is easy enough to be understood. For you must behold, it is equivalent to that of this simple coconut. This husk is equivalent to the application level. And the shell one can equate to shell". Then dextrously he cut open the shell and continued. "This edible part is equivalent to system-calls level. And the kernel is equivalent to the kernel".

"dEnde guruvE, You forgot about the water? What is the coconut juice equivalent to?"- one doubting thomas shouted impatiently from the crowd.

The guru gulped, adjusted his throat and added philosophically, "The water is equivalent to ye effort. Its sourness symbolizes the errors ye maketh, and its sweetness, the results ye getteth."

Everybody was marveled at this perfect analogical reasoning and said to each other in hushed tones "ennthathiSayamE! ivan etthrayO valiyavan!". They felt as if they knew every thing about unix.

R: "Oh most venerable master, the mal programming language seems to be successful software. Why not make an integrated mal operating system?"

The guru maintaining his calmness gave the following response.

G: "My son, parallel architecture is the order of the day. And an integrated mal operating system should be built upon a massively parallel hardware. But you see, every other day, blokes are coming up with goddamn newer architectures, making the previous ones obsolete. We at the mal corporation are patiently waiting for the situation to calm down. (mumbles) "Perhaps it will never happen".

R: "Pardon, What did you say?"

G: "Oh nothing. I was saying its too hot in here."

    	    	    	    	    -Koshy George
    	    	    	  (for the mal corporation)    	   	   

mal is the trade mark of the mal corporation .