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Unix followed the unix philosophy just fine. Looking at current "unix-like" software and the huge amount of bloat and cruft isn't a reasonable way to criticize
by papsosouid 14y ago
Unix followed the unix philosophy just fine. Looking at current "unix-like" software and the huge amount of bloat and cruft isn't a reasonable way to criticize unix. Unix has been obsolete for decades, and the systems that took over (BSDs, linux, GNU) didn't follow the unix philosophy very much (or at all in the case of GNU).
- unimpressive 14y ago> (or at all in the case of GNU). What did you expect? RMS was a MIT Hacker. Which means that his background was using Lisp, ITS, and Lisp machines.
- papsosouid 14y agoI didn't say I expected GNU to follow the unix philosophy. I pointed out that it doesn't, and that saying "unix doesn't follow unix philosophy" while pointing at GNU tools for proof is absurd.