Am Do., 13. Apr. 2023 um 21:05 Uhr schrieb Arthur A. Gleckler
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> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 11:32 AM Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> PS I am advocating the Unix philosophy a bit here.  Every fundamental
>> procedure just needs to be able to do a single thing because we can
>> compose procedures.
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> Ha!  That Eric Raymond has convinced people that "do one thing well" is the Unix philosophy is a masterstroke of marketing.  When I look at the man page of any widely used Unix tool, e.g. diff or find or ls or tar, I see the furthest thing from "do one thing well" that is possible.  But from the Scheme perspective, I understand what you mean.  (Sorry for the micro-rant.)

True!

Emacs may be the positive exception: it does one thing well -
emulating a whole OS. ;)