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▶ The Unix Philosophy Anonymous 05/16/20 (Sat) 22:27:00 No.1084122>>1084314 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Alright, time for some nitty-gritty discussion, if you have strong feelings or anger about this thread, you should go to a different one.

Looking at the unix philosophy it seems like a simple, taoist-like approach to programming, and is honestly quite sound. So I want to know, what, where, when, and why and especially how should I not use it?

I'm serious. This is coming from someone who has emacs as his main text editor, and I want an informative answer.

I really want the response to be from someone other than anti-unixfag or kizuna-lispfag. Those two are a bunch of weak-ego-faggots who are atheist fedora-fags of programming. Even if I kinda miss them

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▶Anonymous 06/06/20 (Sat) 15:55:55 No.1084314>>1084446

>>1084122 (OP)

I think this points are the only thing keeping some of today computing sane. I have to admit that only recently I have migrated from windows to fulltime use of linux. And it's a bliss to use an operating system that's easy to customize with scripts and text configuration files.

But event this philosophy did not completely prevent bloating:

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." (Zawinski's Law).

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▶Anonymous 06/23/20 (Tue) 23:13:39 No.1084446>>1084557

>>1084314

>"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.

That's why Unix phylosophy very first item states that each program must do one thing and only one thing, and do it well.

Why the fuck would your weather program need your mail? or your text editor access to internet, and so on.

If our modern world would have followed Unix philosophy in a strict way, things wouldn't have gotten to the awful state we are now.

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▶Anonymous 07/16/20 (Thu) 12:05:01 No.1084557

>>1084446

well, a web service and a client side application are two different things. as far as client side stuff goes unix philosophy is non-existant. if we're talking headless servers then a bunch of smaller tools are better than one monolithic piece of software for sure.

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▶Anonymous 07/19/20 (Sun) 03:33:43 No.1084581

When did we get small text?

Test.

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