From: James <oscartheduck@...>
Date: 2010-08-17T04:12:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Unix Philosophy in Ruby Programing

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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Peter Hickman <
peterhickman386@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Now that I reflect on this I find that the point where I understood
> the Unix philosophy was when I read the book "Software Tools" by
> Kernighan and Plauger - don't bother with the Pascal edition of the
> book :( Not sure that you get to learn a lot of programming techniques
> from that book these days (in the old days, the 70s in my case, there
> were few usable programming texts). But the underlying "small tools
> joined together like lego to build something bigger" outlook was an
> eye opener for my - being as I was a mainframe programmer.
>
> Unix was so cool in how it didn't care about things it didn't care about.
>
>
What's neat is that the core unix philosophy of small tools working together
with clear interfaces is a great example of clean object oriented
principles. Modularity, well-defined roles and interfaces, each section of
code doing one thing with no side effects, it's all just great design at the
end of the day.

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