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UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification (Developers)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 14.11.2021, 21:55
(edited by rr on 15.11.2021, 08:28)

> It's weird because everything starts simple but gets progressively more
> complex. Diff originally outputted to Ed, Patch came later. Ed spun off
> both Grep and Sed. DOS even had Edlin as a "temporary" solution. Ed also
> evolved into Ex/Vi and Sam. TECO evolved into Emacs. AWK (very loosely
> speaking) evolved into Perl and other bigger, more complex, tools.

You're not alone!

1) Dunno where I read this, but it's a general problem: If you ask people to improve some "thing", they will (nearly) ALWAYS ADD a feature. But if you give them more time and explicitly say, that removing a feature might also be an improvement, they come up with different ideas.

2) https://brutalist-web.design/
3) At http://felix.plesoianu.ro/web/ read the articles in the section "Writing".

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Complete thread:

• UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - Rugxulo, 14.11.2021, 19:15 (Developers)
  • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - rr, 14.11.2021, 21:55
  • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - tkchia, 15.11.2021, 21:32
    • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - Rugxulo, 20.11.2021, 22:39
      • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - tkchia, 22.11.2021, 18:27
        • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - RayeR, 22.11.2021, 18:49
          • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - tkchia, 22.11.2021, 20:18
            • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - RayeR, 23.11.2021, 05:04
  • UNIX-ification / POSIX-ification / Linux-ification - tkchia, 15.11.2021, 22:24