> I absolutely love the trend of rewriting classic Unix utilities This was actually a big draw of GNU implementations in the mid-to-late 1980s vs. the "then cl

> I absolutely love the trend of rewriting classic Unix utilities This was actually a big draw of GNU implementations in the mid-to-late 1980s vs. the "then classics" of the mid-to-late-1970s. Before the dominance of Linux / OSX, people on SunOS / Ultrix / HP-UX / Irix / AIX / *BSD would often quickly install those more featureful GNU utilities. I imagine AIX/*BSD people still do.