[colug-432] The UNIX Philosophy

[Richard Troth]

And don't miss the Henry Spencer quote further down the page.

There are even some in the Linux world who "don't understand UNIX".  [shock!]

-- R;   <><





On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 19:16,  <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:26:16 -0400, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, TIL about the "column" command.  BSD/GNU/Linux continues to impress :-).
>
> Mike Gancarz wrote a good book about this.
>
>   https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Unix_philosophy#Mike_Gancarz:_The_UNIX_Philosophy
>
> It's a fun read. You'll recognize much. An owner of a copy
> thought I should read it and lent it to me. He was right.
> There is a newer book: "Linux and the Unix Philosophy"
> I don't know how it compares to the original.
>
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