Unix/C program modularity

[Guy Harris]

> Are we being lulled into using an O/S and language that allows us to whip
> together quicky demos to demonstrate concepts, at the expense of long-term
> usefulness as a finished product ??

Nothing in UNIX or C *forces* you to write applications in the style you
describe.  It is not appropriate to write every application under the sun as
a collection of filters, and lots of excellent applications running under
UNIX are not so written.

	Guy Harris