UNIX mind-set (was: How wrong is MS-DOS?)
Dave Sill
de5 at ornl.gov
Sat Jan 19 07:42:14 AEST 1991
Larry Wall: The Jenny Holzer of Computing
In article <11107 at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>
>A language that overly encourages coining suffers rapid dialectical divergence.
What's `coining'?
>There's too much good code around.
Too much in some areas, not enough in others. And lots of poorly
intergrated good code.
>There's More Than One Way To Do It.
Not heresy according to the UNIX "plumbing" philosophy.
--
Dave Sill (de5 at ornl.gov) It will be a great day when our schools have
Martin Marietta Energy Systems all the money they need and the Air Force
Workstation Support has to hold a bake sale to buy a new bomber.
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