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. > > There is no one definite set of priciples that is the so-called “unix > philosophy”, but rather, it consistest of various slogans developed > over the decades by unix programers that purport to describe the way > unix is supposed to have been designed. The characteristics include: > “keep it simple”, “make it fast”, “keep it small”, “make > it work on 99% of cases, but generality and correctness are less > important”, “diversity rules”, “User interface is not > important, raw power is good”, “everything should be a file”, > “architecture is less important than immediate workability”. Often, > these are expressed by chantible slogans that exhibits juvenile humor, > such as “small is beautiful”, “KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)”.
Perhaps you should take a peek at the ideas in Plan 9 from Bell Labs, which is a continuation of this philosophy, unlike the "modern" unix clones. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
