From: M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Favorite unix design principles?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:06:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiWY3ggz7Rv6Y0mNr_MH5+z7duHhFH9xf-rKgsvhQvCWgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2101250729510.22271@sd-119843.dedibox.fr>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1288 bytes --]
It might be interesting to compare your final list with the two lists in
the 1978 special issue of the BSTJ--one in the Foreword, the other in the
revised version of the Ritchi/Thompson article from the CACM. How have
perceptions or values changed over time?
Doug
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 7:32 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, Tyler Adams wrote:
>
> > I'm writing about my 5 favorite unix design principles on my blog this
> > week, and it got me wondering what others' favorite unix design
> principles
> > are? For reference, mine are:
> >
> > - Rule of Separation (from TAOUP <
> http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/>
> > )
> > - Let the Machine Do the Dirty Work (from Elements of Programming Style)
> > - Rule of Silence (from TAOUP <http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/
> >)
> > - Data Dominates (Rob Pike #5)
> > - The SPOT (Single Point of Truth) Rule (from TAOUP
> > <http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/>)
> >
> > Tyler
> >
>
> 1. Pipes
> 2. Text as the preferred format for input and output
> 3. 'Most everything as a file
> 4. The idea of simple tools that are optimized for a single task
> 5. A powerful scripting language built into the system that, combined with
> 1-4, makes writing new tools heaps easier.
>
> -uso.
>
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2115 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-26 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-25 11:10 Tyler Adams
2021-01-25 12:32 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-01-26 2:06 ` M Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2021-01-26 2:53 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-01-26 10:22 ` Tyler Adams
2021-01-26 12:26 ` John P. Linderman
2021-01-26 15:23 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-26 16:00 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-01-26 16:13 ` Adam Thornton
[not found] ` <CAKH6PiXKjksEpQOMMMQTbcsMvX2thz3WzqjoRWJAsXnZ4Eq_iQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-01-30 19:01 ` Tyler Adams
2021-01-30 19:50 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-30 20:06 ` Tyler Adams
2021-01-30 21:28 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-30 21:42 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-30 21:45 ` Tyler Adams
2021-01-30 22:31 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-30 22:28 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-30 23:11 ` [TUHS] FreeBSD behind the times? (was: Favorite unix design principles?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-01-30 23:17 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-30 23:22 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-30 23:31 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] " Larry McVoy
2021-01-30 23:37 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-30 23:54 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-31 12:23 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] Re: FreeBSD behind the times? Dermot Tynan
2021-01-31 0:00 ` [TUHS] [SPAM] Re: FreeBSD behind the times? (was: Favorite unix design principles?) Bakul Shah
2021-02-09 2:15 ` [TUHS] " Will Senn
2021-02-09 2:16 ` Will Senn
2021-02-09 2:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-01-31 0:39 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-01-31 1:47 ` Will Senn
2021-01-31 2:25 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-31 2:52 ` Will Senn
2021-01-31 3:00 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-31 3:06 ` Will Senn
2021-01-31 3:32 ` John Cowan
2021-02-04 5:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-04 6:10 ` Angus Robinson
2021-02-04 7:46 ` Andy Kosela
2021-02-04 22:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-04 15:45 ` Will Senn
2021-02-04 16:03 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-04 16:32 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-04 16:49 ` Will Senn
2021-02-04 17:46 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-04 18:41 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-04 22:28 ` George Michaelson
2021-02-04 22:41 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-05 0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-05 5:17 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-05 14:18 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-05 18:16 ` Warner Losh
2021-02-05 18:21 ` ron minnich
2021-02-06 0:03 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-06 2:06 ` Dan Cross
2021-02-06 3:01 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-06 1:18 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-06 1:43 ` joe mcguckin
2021-02-06 1:55 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-05 20:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-06 0:21 ` Brad Spencer
2021-02-06 2:22 ` Rico Pajarola
2021-02-06 2:55 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-06 3:07 ` Will Senn
2021-02-27 8:54 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-02-06 4:55 ` John Cowan
2021-02-04 7:46 ` Chris Torek
2021-02-04 15:47 ` Will Senn
2021-02-11 21:01 ` Angel M Alganza
2021-01-30 23:09 ` [TUHS] Favorite unix design principles? John Cowan
2021-01-30 23:22 ` Jon Steinhart
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CAKH6PiWY3ggz7Rv6Y0mNr_MH5+z7duHhFH9xf-rKgsvhQvCWgA@mail.gmail.com \
--to=m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu \
--cc=tuhs@tuhs.org \
--cc=usotsuki@buric.co \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).