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“Do one thing and do it well”
️ “Build on the work of others”from the AT&T UNIX
System V Release 3 Programmer’s Guide, 1987Between 1998 and ~2005, I taught introduction to Unix to incoming astronomy and physics grad students at an American R1 university. This - the Unix system philosophy - was the first lesson. I like to flatter myself by believing it made a difference.
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Between 1998 and ~2005, I taught introduction to Unix to incoming astronomy and physics grad students at an American R1 university. This - the Unix system philosophy - was the first lesson. I like to flatter myself by believing it made a difference.
@lolcat I taught myself with FreeBSD in the late ’90s, and took a university course in 2002 or 2003 that used “The UNIX Programming Environment” as the textbook, but I don’t ever remember seeing this particular version of the philosophy. I really like it. Feels like a more human way of expressing that the core idea is *composability*
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@lolcat I taught myself with FreeBSD in the late ’90s, and took a university course in 2002 or 2003 that used “The UNIX Programming Environment” as the textbook, but I don’t ever remember seeing this particular version of the philosophy. I really like it. Feels like a more human way of expressing that the core idea is *composability*
Yes - composability. I am not a programmer - worked as one for a few years in the 80s, but became a systems person. Cobbling things together with pipes and redirection is our wheelhouse.
By the late 90s, students arrived having used Macs, or (mostly) Windows. I framed Unix as being different because its creators made fewer assumptions about HOW you'd use the system, and therefore gave you more freedom to make it behave however you liked, if you made the effort.
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“Do one thing and do it well”️ “Build on the work of others”
from the AT&T UNIX
System V Release 3 Programmer’s Guide, 1987been there, done that, taught it in 1987-
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“Do one thing and do it well”️ “Build on the work of others”
from the AT&T UNIX
System V Release 3 Programmer’s Guide, 1987@sstephenson and #kiss
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“Do one thing and do it well”️ “Build on the work of others”
from the AT&T UNIX
System V Release 3 Programmer’s Guide, 1987@sstephenson I would add that if the solution does not exist, it MAY be because you re solving the wrong problem!
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“Do one thing and do it well”️ “Build on the work of others”
from the AT&T UNIX
System V Release 3 Programmer’s Guide, 1987Heh, heh. They said “/usr/bins”.
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Heh, heh. They said “/usr/bins”.
@VE2UWY I’m disappointed they didn’t pluralize “etc”
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Life update: Downloaded every PDF in the Bitsavers AT&T collection
@sstephenson I was out the back urinating on systemd, did I miss anything?
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“Do one thing and do it well”️ “Build on the work of others”
from the AT&T UNIX
System V Release 3 Programmer’s Guide, 1987@sstephenson Thanks for sharing.
This was one of the first things i learned about programming on UNIX, this was cited in https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/xlib-reference-manual/9780937175262/ afair
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