From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2010-08-17T09:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Unix Philosophy in Ruby Programing

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 2010/8/16 James <oscartheduck@gmail.com>:
>> What's neat is that the core unix philosophy of small tools working together
> Not all Unix tools are free of side effects or can have side effects
> under certain conditions: tee, mail, awk variants, perl, python, ruby,
> dd, find, xargs, rm...

Unix was considered to have significantly departed from this philosophy
as early as 1983. If you've never read it, this paper (derived from Rob
Pike's talk "cat -v Considered Harmful") is worth a read:

<http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/>

Clifford Heath.

'The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.'
   -- Gordon Bell