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People love to say the Unix philosophy is "Write programs that do one thing and do it well". But this does not really seem to me to really match Unix practice.
by Chinjut 1mo ago
People love to say the Unix philosophy is "Write programs that do one thing and do it well". But this does not really seem to me to really match Unix practice. And it doesn't match LLMs either, as the article notes.
(So what is this article talking about? I guess it's talking mainly about "Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface".)
- kazinator 1mo agoIndeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393741
- pjmlp 1mo agoThat is akin to some cult. A famous book has this quote, and then some folks express the idea all the time, except as you well put it doesn't match practice. One just needs to dig out the man pages for any commercial UNIX from the early 1990's.