From: Noah Evans <noah.evans@cwru.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] insularity
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:53:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <297e6b297131.297131297e6b@cwru.edu> (raw)
Exactly(if I understand you right). Everything that's been added on since then is just a way of avoiding the right way of doing things(i.e. coming up with a way of describing the problem, then adding that idiom to your vocabulary). But then again, I'm just quoting the gospel of "software tools".
Sociologists have studied this process quite a bit. A small group of talented people come up with something very interesting and elegant, like a religion or clothing style, and then as it spreads and diffuses the meme begins to mutate and simplify. Pretty soon it ossifies and barely even resembles the original. I wish I had paid more attention when my professor was discussing it.
Noah
----- Original Message -----
From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:24 pm
Subject: Re: [9fans] insularity
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Noah Evans wrote:
>
> > A really bad habit of mine is relying on the history to do things,
> > Rather than spend the initial cost of effort to write a shell
> function> and remember it, I'm constantly using Bash's tab
> completion and history
> > functions to avoid having to expend any effort organizing my
> patterns of
> > use and solving problems. Everything I do is an ad hoc solution.
>
> there's some real humor here, in some sense, as this is what we
> did in the
> 70s with Unix V6, before stuff like history. Some things have come
> full
> circle.
>
> ron
>
>
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2004-03-18 2:08 Noah Evans
2004-03-18 8:14 ` Michael H. Collins
2004-03-17 18:11 Noah Evans
2004-03-17 16:52 Noah Evans
2004-03-17 17:24 ` ron minnich
2004-03-17 17:25 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-17 17:43 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 17:59 ` rog
2004-03-17 17:58 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 18:19 ` Don Bailey
2004-03-17 18:18 ` David Presotto
2004-03-18 7:23 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-18 1:05 ` bs
2004-03-18 1:20 ` Taj Khattra
2004-03-17 8:55 [9fans] Novice question - run as other Geoff Collyer
2004-03-17 16:22 ` [9fans] insularity rog
2004-03-17 16:32 ` Aharon Robbins
2004-03-17 16:36 ` suspect
2004-03-17 16:48 ` lucio
2004-03-17 18:09 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 19:26 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-03-18 13:50 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 22:48 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-03-17 23:11 ` David Presotto
2004-03-18 7:47 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-18 2:45 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-17 17:53 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-17 19:12 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-03-17 18:56 ` vdharani
2004-03-18 2:39 ` boyd, rounin
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