From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
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 08:27:56 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230710122756.0A76018C094@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>
> 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 think you're thinking of something in the CACM paper:
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cacm.html
"The success of Unix lies not so much in new inventions but rather in the
full exploitation of a carefully selected set of fertile ideas"
Noel
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2023-07-10 12:27 Noel Chiappa [this message]
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2023-07-10 11:18 [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2023-07-10 11:40 ` [TUHS] " arnold
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