From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 12592 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2023 11:19:01 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 10 Jul 2023 11:19:01 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E2840952; Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:18:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from vmail-relay.servers.aueb.gr (relay.servers.aueb.gr [195.251.255.219]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A60C402D2 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:18:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from vmail-mta.servers.aueb.gr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vmail-relay.servers.aueb.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B52B6D8157C for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:18:41 +0300 (EEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=aueb.gr; s=201901; t=1688987921; bh=hm7vEbn5RWbKMiBwjggP1Aa+k7mCpmMrjZpDmjmIl5w=; h=Date:From:Subject:To:From; b=nqnQBlHx8OtxKf3yFhYItZwe77rTR+sHColukXt6syw3X2YTMGSlQDWKlPHsiO7S4 GRtAMSFuacDlokEZrul9uV1W2+8AUNTPzgAxe8kMYaV8MQnlv8BR4vhm3WDUUiDDQ2 cmFV5wpcvIG19Rrw57Z/5s4tOc4rfb1bzdiQjdtMgiAW1tKJdhxED6TvQ3ifCBotTt H1uogL8KcOhUxaJ45iTyfFZx/2NUHBQFVPyZqiEPB4qtwKU0wrEzMH2WlRHaEdDENo SlkNux7WXcpHuURvhZBd3+XzauDqrXg1rf1+UIzb8T5Yn09FQIcLv1zO7tJvu4sLgf xTNERLXnCCzqA== Received: from [192.168.1.102] (109-178-205-166.pat.ren.cosmote.net [109.178.205.166]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dds) by vmail-mta.servers.aueb.gr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A01C0D814A7 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:18:41 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:18:41 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.12.0 From: Diomidis Spinellis To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Content-Language: el-en Organization: Athens University of Economics and Business Phone: +30 210 8203621 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: OXU7YLYT2374KED3MKTXWI2M464Y4MBU X-Message-ID-Hash: OXU7YLYT2374KED3MKTXWI2M464Y4MBU X-MailFrom: dds@aueb.gr X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Who stated that the power of Unix stems from the wise choice of a few design principles rather than the endless accumulation of special cases List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: I seem to recall reading that the power of Unix stems from the wise choice of a few design principles rather than the endless accumulation of special cases. However, I cannot find where this is stated. I tried a Google web and a Google Scholar search using the terms "unix endless accumulation special cases", and I also asked ChatGPT for a publication associated with this phrase. I also searched for "special" in D.M.Ritchie's "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System" and "The UNIX Time-sharing System A Retrospective". (Amazingly, both have several parts that still highly relevant.) Can anyone help? Am I misremembering something?