From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:28:23 -0400 Subject: [TUHS} Running V8 ... In-Reply-To: <201710161158.v9GBweD4005539@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> References: <201710161158.v9GBweD4005539@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Doug McIlroy wrote: > > This question bears on a recent thread about favorite flavors of Unix. My > favorite flavor is Universal Unix, namely the stuff that just works > everywhere. That's essentially what K&P is about. ​+1 I would add, to me that's what the 'standardization' efforts were really about as a >>user<<. To settle on the minimum subset needed to the get the job do and stop adding 'sugar' because you could.​ The ISVs wanted to maximize (SPEC1170 et al), but to me 'Universal' was what do I really need/use every day. In fact, its why I switch from EMACS to vi early in my UNIX career. Vi and (ed) were everywhere (K&P style). EMACS was not and if I found a flavor for that system, it was always 'different.' I could sit down at anything from MS-DOS to a Cray and stuff worked well enough that I could do what I needed to do. [I'm not a great fan of "vim" for that reason either BTW -- I just want the basics to 'be there' and 'be reliable' - do what I want without me having to rethink]. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: