From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 05:36:57 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix taste (Re:  terminal - just for fun)
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On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> A modern-day analog of the undisciplined exuberance of emacs and vi:
> for a good time on linux try
>         less --help | wc

Arrgghh!  Same on Mac and BSD systems.

> An interesting question is how the corrective of taste manages ever to 
> recenter the exuberance of evolution. The birth of Unix shows it can 
> happen. When will it happen again? Can one cite small-scale examples 
> that gained traction within the larger evolution of Unix?

Closest I can think of is public key crypto, strong hashes, etc.  Easy to 
explain in general terms, difficult to implement correctly, and had a heck 
of an influence.

-- Dave