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Unix is awesome. I recently had lunch with a friend and I asked him about if he was planning new features their key/value store and I loved his answer: (paraph
by roder 16y ago
Unix is awesome.
I recently had lunch with a friend and I asked him about if he was planning new features their key/value store and I loved his answer: (paraphrased)
I'm a unix-guy. I want small bits of software that does one thing and does it really well.
His point was that software these days is rarely "finished". However in Unix so much of the software are small pieces. Each piece does one job and does it well. Then you can fit those pieces together in all sorts of configurations to do new and interesting things.
- iuguy 16y agoThe unixlike nature of certain tools is what makes the Unix architecture more or less unique. Look at binutils and you'll find heaps of tools with amazing abilities like dd, cat and echo. For me, vim wins over emacs precisely because ultimately it's an editor. Emacs for me is a whole operating environment like Gnome (although I use both and appreciate that vim can be heavily extended).