18 Jan
2004
18 Jan
'04
7:34 p.m.
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 19:32, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:49:05PM -0500, Dave
Robillard wrote:
I mean the design of unix from a user perspective, not how the system
calls are designed.
Small little tools that do one thing and communicate via pipes, etc.
The system is actually more powerful because of this simplicity.
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 08:52, Alfons Adriaensen
wrote:
Nor did I say such a thing.
On a more general tone: I think we should be less
afraid of complexity
and learning curves. Dumbing down maybe required in order to be popular,
but that's not my aim. And finally, I believe diversity is a Good Thing.
Writing good modular software with simple modules that interact in
well-defines ways is NOT "dumbing down"! Is UNIX a dumbed down operating system?
Certainly not, and it provides a good example of what I mean. Unix system
calls are always designed to be as general as possible, [snip]