From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akosela@andykosela.com (Andy Kosela) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 16:22:36 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] dmr note on BSD's sins In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tuesday, May 2, 2017, Diomidis Spinellis wrote: > On 02/05/2017 19:11, Steve Johnson wrote: > >> I recall a paper Dennis wrote (maybe more like a note) that was titled >> echo -c considered harmful >> (I think it was -c). It decried the tendency, now completely out of >> control, for everybody and their dog to piddle on perfectly good code >> just because it's "open". >> > > There's definitely Rob Pike's talk "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered > Harmful", which he delivered at the 1983 Usenix Association Conference and > Software Tools USers Group Summer Conference. Unfortunately, I can't find > it online. It's interesting that the talk's date is now closer to the > birth of Unix than to the present. > > This talk is today as legendary as Plato's "On the Good" lecture[1]. [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/4182081 --Andy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: