Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!raspberry.therandymon.com!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: the Unix philosophy and a collection of hacks Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 00:04:57 +0000 Organization: solani.org Lines: 27 Message-ID: <9iomod-4c2.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> References: <20170302162646.e2e4b8f4.rsw@therandymon.com> <87tw7b49gd.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Reply-To: randy@therandymon.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: solani.org 1488500103 29911 eJwNy8kBwCAMA7CVTJxznFDI/iNQ/WX05V+om6uNTesVVMRO75QmDNEjIM9K2QHa5C2cUs4fHwYyEEI= (3 Mar 2017 00:15:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 00:15:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBgDAIA7CXgLY4zwGR/09YIqTn9zCV1Gq9s0Mdp7xbYqxTNONUFEDFuzbIxeJg/gsLjBCG X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBACAIA8BKKjAwjjzrH8E7E2yUKwxqNPo4KmRebvabFZWGPkz2Hcq0p6y65+ooifhCPhJp Cancel-Lock: sha1:BMrMhb1FwosjteUQmmC7+ALDpEA= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:13241 On 2017-03-02, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > RS Wood : >> James Hague, a veteran of programming (has been in programming since >> the eighties), writes the following: “What I was trying to get across >> is that if you romanticize Unix, if you view it as a thing of >> perfection, then you lose your ability to imagine better alternatives >> and become blind to potentially dramatic shifts in thinking”. The >> Source. Read this article and the one he refers to: «Free Your >> Technical Aesthetic from the 1970s». Actually, if you like my article, >> you’ll like his blog too. > > Clickbait? > > > Marko I thought the guy's title was a bit inflammatory, but I liked the article itself: history of things that became "the way" even if they weren't intended to be. I'm always reminded of that scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where all Brian's followers are holding up sticks from which a sandal is dangling, the now orthodox way of representing the man who lost his sandal as he fled from them ... The /bin vs. /usr/bin and /opt thing was interesting. So was the one about make and its tab format. Didn't know the history behind either of them.