From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, dds@aueb.gr
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Who stated that the power of Unix stems from the wise choice of a few design principles rather than the endless accumulation of special cases
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:40:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202307101140.36ABe8b2030572@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eed45781-ebf8-bb10-46af-5ea0c99c3edf@aueb.gr>
Try looking at the original 1974 CACM paper on Unix by Ken & DMR.
I suspect you'll find something like that there.
HTH,
Arnold
Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> wrote:
> I seem to recall reading that the power of Unix stems from the wise
> choice of a few design principles rather than the endless accumulation
> of special cases. However, I cannot find where this is stated. I tried
> a Google web and a Google Scholar search using the terms "unix endless
> accumulation special cases", and I also asked ChatGPT for a publication
> associated with this phrase. I also searched for "special" in
> D.M.Ritchie's "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System" and "The
> UNIX Time-sharing System␔ A Retrospective". (Amazingly, both have
> several parts that still highly relevant.)
>
> Can anyone help? Am I misremembering something?
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-10 11:18 [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2023-07-10 11:40 ` arnold [this message]
2023-07-10 12:27 [TUHS] " Noel Chiappa
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