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> The "Unix Philosophy" of "do one thing and do it well" isn't just a tagline. That philosophy is cherished because it's been proven to be valuable It's PR flu
by lomnakkus 9y ago
> The "Unix Philosophy" of "do one thing and do it well" isn't just a tagline. That philosophy is cherished because it's been proven to be valuable
It's PR fluff -- AFICT it's actually never been true. If it were true, we'd not have a "sort" option for "ls". (EDIT: It would also require a better interchange format than "unstructured text", but that's an aside.)
It's also fuzzy enough that you can always claim it to be true: What is the "one thing", well for systemd[1] the "one thing" is to be a "system daemon" (not an "init system" whatever the definition of that is). I guess you could argue whether it does it well, but I claim that it does -- at least for every single system that I'm running it on.
[1] That's the correct spelling, btw. Not SystemD or any other variation.