From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dds@aueb.gr (Diomidis Spinellis) Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 23:28:25 +0300 Subject: [TUHS] dmr note on BSD's sins In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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