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Charlie Geyer charlie at queets.stat.washington.edu
Sun Dec 11 07:16:08 AEST 1988


In article <146 at minya.UUCP> jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>
>What ever happened to the original Unix Philosophy of lots of little
>programs, each of which did exactly one job well, and which could be
>fitted together to do bigger jobs?  I've noticed that lots of people
>seem to dislike this approach, but I've yet to see any cogent argument
>against it.
>
Simple psychology.  Who wants to write a program that just concatenates 
files?  If your task is to write a text editor but your real ambition in 
life is to write a Lisp interpreter, what do you do?



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