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"UNIX way" is not an idea or a religion. It's a natural selection of small, understandable tools, which can be supported by any professional programmer.
by drran 6y ago
"UNIX way" is not an idea or a religion. It's a natural selection of small, understandable tools, which can be supported by any professional programmer.
- pjmlp 6y agoThe UNIX way is a cargo cult. I have done most commercial UNIXes starting with Xenix in 1993, none of them was (or are, regarding the surviving ones) following it. In fact some of them have introduced systemd like ideas way longer.
- drran 6y agoWhat you think about the idea of "function", a small piece of code which does one job, but does it well? Do you think we need one big function, which will unifies interfaces of multiple different functions, lets call it "system-function"?
- pjmlp 6y agoDepends, functions that take booleans and enumeration flags to change their behaviour come to mind. Also modules, objects and components packing functions together as means to make sense of disjointed functions.
- tyingq 6y ago"In fact some of them have introduced systemd like ideas way longer." True enough. I spent a fair amount of time trying to wrangle with smit on AIX. That's not an endorsement :)
- coldtea 6y ago"Natural selection" in that it's a hodgepodge of varying quality tools, with no specific input and output structure (aside from stream of text/bytes), idiosyncratic flags (different between them for the same features), no coordination on various features/decisions, that let professional programmers hapilly work like it's 1979 and we've reached some global maxima.