On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, EBo wrote:
Ethan Grammatikidis <eeke...@fastmail.fm> said:
approach is. Unix was made with the idea of getting away from the
overburdened, ridiculously bloated operating systems of the past.
Actually, explaining that in an ezine would make a wonderful article.
Actually if I had time I think we could post a half dozen or more references
which basically explain this as why Plan 9 was designed and developed in the
first place.
Here's a great example from unix:
http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/cat
http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/source/browse/trunk/src/cmd/cat.s
simple, understandable, useful, composable.
EBo --
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