• @Mango
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    89 months ago

    What’s the Unix philosophy?

    • @friend_of_satan
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      9 months ago

      catb is full of great info, including the answer to the question.

      http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html

      This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

      Edit: replaced with the succinct version.

      • @Mango
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        49 months ago

        Ooohhh, I’ve been reading bits of catb.org since I was like 13!

    • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Everything does 1 thing, programs work together

      I think Linux just doing the kernel should count as Unix philosophy though

    • @woelkchen
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      09 months ago

      Probably the opposite of what “GNU’s Not Unix” does.