From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/588 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Hammerquist Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Which one shall I choose? Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 07:32:54 GMT Message-ID: References: <8z5uq9vh.fsf@hotmail.com> <87ofep7vrr.fsf@landhaus.consult-meyers.com> Reply-To: timmy@cpan.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667537 7543 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:49 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!newsrouter1.slurp.net!newsfeed.slurp.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus,comp.mail.mutt Original-Followup-To: comp.mail.mutt Mail-Followup-To: timmy@cpan.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Vim-601 http://www.vim.org/ User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.100.200.173 Original-X-Trace: newsfeed.slurp.net 1023348774 206.100.200.173 (Thu, 06 Jun 2002 02:32:54 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 02:32:54 CDT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:728 Original-Lines: 40 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 728 Tue Jan 17 17:27:49 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:588 Archived-At: Robin S. Socha graced us by uttering: [ snip ] > Because it sucks dick? This is an excellent tactic to solve discussions, I think. A little mud-flinging always convinces your audience you're right. > > Just a straight unix attitude - use a right tool for your tasks ;-). > > The straight Unix attitude is to use tools that work. That rules out > procmail. I've heard something different entirely: "Do one thing and do it well." But to look at something a little more definitive , the nine "tenets" of the Unix Philosophy: 1. small is beautiful 2. make each program do one thing well 3. build a prototype as soon as possible 4. choose portability over efficiency 5. store numerical data in flat files 6. use software leverage to your advantage 7. use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability 8. avoid captive user interfaces 9. make every program a filter (1) doesn't say much for Emacs, but (4) certainly speaks better of Emacs than mutt (see other discussion) More specifically, a better mantra would be "Use what works... for you." The practice of telling others what they should use despite their wishes seems decisively Redmond-esqe. MDAs, MTAs, MUAs are all to be modular in a unix system. Tim Hammerquist -- Obviously I was either onto something, or on something. -- Larry Wall on the creation of Perl