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This attitude does not match history. If Unix really was about that philosophy, we would have never seen tools like emacs and perl gain any sort of popularity.
by Blackthorn 9y ago
This attitude does not match history. If Unix really was about that philosophy, we would have never seen tools like emacs and perl gain any sort of popularity.
- moe 9y agoUNIX philosophy[1] is not about popularity but about choice. We get to choose between Emacs/Vim, Perl/Python, Syslog-ng/RSyslog, ntpd/openntpd and so on. This has resulted in multiple mature implementations for every core system task. Yet instead of sticking with this code that has stood the test of time over decades, we threw it all out for a poorly written jack of all trades that gives root to usernames starting with a digit... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Origin