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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [OT] Re: earliest Unix roff
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:51:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190919215107.GA27727@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1909191745270.12396@frieza.hoshinet.org>

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 05:46:13PM -0400, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> 
> >Serious question:
> >
> >Which is better, creating a whole new binary to put in /usr/bin to do a
> >single task, or add a flag to cat?
> >
> >Which is better, a proliferation of binaries w/standalone source code, or
> >a single code tree that can handle slightly different tasks and save
> >space?
> >
> >:)
> >
> >art k.
> 
> I would argue that the more "Unix" way to do it is have the multiple
> binaries.  One job, one tool, and chain them together to make bigger tools.

That worked when we were running on 64K machines.  Modern machines do
a lot more and the problem space is not always a pipeline.

You aren't going to write a web server by spawning 

	cat | encrypt | http_servlet

That doesn't scale.  At all.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-19 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-19 18:50 Norman Wilson
2019-09-19 19:00 ` Nemo Nusquam
2019-09-19 20:18   ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-19 20:33     ` Arthur Krewat
2019-09-19 20:39       ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-19 21:46       ` Steve Nickolas
2019-09-19 21:51         ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-09-19 20:42     ` [TUHS] " Andy Kosela
2019-09-19 22:44 ` [TUHS] [OT] " Rob Pike
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-09-19 21:19 Norman Wilson
2019-09-16 14:51 [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 14:57 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-16 15:14   ` Richard Salz
2019-09-16 16:10     ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 16:16       ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-16 16:26         ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 16:31           ` Richard Salz
2019-09-16 16:45             ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-16 17:19               ` KatolaZ
2019-09-16 17:37                 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-09-16 18:09                   ` [TUHS] [OT] " KatolaZ
2019-09-16 18:19                     ` Jon Steinhart

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