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Um what does simple, widgety applications have to do with UNIX?
by maukdaddy 17y ago
Um what does simple, widgety applications have to do with UNIX?
- dhs 17y agoFrom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Doug McIlroy, the inventor of Unix pipes and one of the founders of the Unix tradition, summarized the philosophy as follows: This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
- TallGuyShort 17y agoIt's part of the "UNIX philosophy" - to write programs that do one thing, and do it well. They also encouraged the use of text interfaces so that it was easy to connect pieces together with pipes. Text was seen as a "universal" way to transmit data. Such a universal protocol is another concept I think will become more important as the web continues to grow.