The Nature of the “Unix Philosophy”

[Frank Silvermann]

Xah Lee wrote:
> The Nature of the “Unix Philosophy”
> 
> Xah Lee, 2006-05
> 
> In the computing industry, especially among unix community, we often
> hear that there's a “Unix Philosophy”. In this essay, i dissect the
> nature and characterization of such “unix philosophy”, as have been
> described by Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson,
> and Richard P Gabriel et al, and in recent years by Eric Raymond.
> Unix Philosophy.
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> This article is archived at:
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/unix_phil.html
> 
>    Xah
>    xah at xahlee.org
>  ∑ http://xahlee.org/
> 
Sigma may impress some, but it does not impress me until you realize 
that philosophers can't count.  That you have lower-case for the first 
person nominative pronoun is one thing, but that you have a difference 
in subject versus predicate is certainly something that Confucious 
criticizes.  frank
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