From: dds@aueb.gr (Diomidis Spinellis)
Subject: [TUHS] dmr note on BSD's sins
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 23:28:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4f90d5b-ceb8-fa94-2cf2-332a5ed0707b@aueb.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6533db70fc0fc45073e5de11cf9ba5311d1416b@webmail.yaccman.com>
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.
Diomidis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-02 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-01 17:25 ron minnich
2017-05-01 18:09 ` Toby Thain
2017-05-02 16:11 ` Steve Johnson
2017-05-02 16:39 ` Erik E. Fair
2017-05-02 16:43 ` ron minnich
2017-05-02 20:28 ` Diomidis Spinellis [this message]
[not found] ` <CAM4FNStH7KH6+ab0o_fYKfzutvPQ__0w0Zq5_6hk4AFP=+aSAw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-02 20:34 ` Daniel Camolês
2017-05-02 20:34 ` Steve Johnson
2017-05-02 21:22 ` Andy Kosela
2017-05-03 0:52 Doug McIlroy
2017-05-03 0:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-03 12:54 ` Dan Cross
2017-05-03 13:09 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-05-03 13:46 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-03 14:57 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-03 15:34 ` arnold
2017-05-03 15:44 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-03 13:41 Nemo
2017-05-03 22:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-04 14:59 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-05-04 23:14 ` Larry McVoy
2017-05-05 14:01 ` Random832
2017-05-05 18:56 ` A. P. Garcia
2017-05-05 17:33 ` Tim Bradshaw
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