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From: gil@banyan.UUCP (Gil Pilz@Eng@Banyan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  (was: How wrong is M
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Date: 21 Jan 91 21:59:53 GMT
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Reply-To: gil@banyan.com
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The problem with Mr. Giles and other people with similar viewpoints is
that they don't hear you when you say "flexiblity". To them it is just
another marketing buzz word thrown in off the top of ones head, but
nothing that really conveys any meaning. You see Mr. Giles knows THE
SINGLE BEST WAY TO DO *ANYTHING* ON A COMPUTER. From his point of view
all these rinky-dink little utilities that need to be hooked together
are just a waste of time because why should you keep hooking them
together when he knows, *beforehand* mind you, the way they _should_
have been hooked together in the first place ??!!  Never mind that
*you* might like doing things in a slightly different fashion, never
mind that *you* might see the problem from a slightly different angle,
J. Giles KNOWS ! If you had just let him design your system you would
have THE SINGLE BEST WAY TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM right at your
fingertips in one neat little package and never mind all this "pipes
and filters" garbage. It's only mortals like us, who don't possess the
ability to conceive of every possibile use for the systems we design,
that have to worry about "flexibility" or "expandability".

take ever combination, take every consideration
take a few weeks off
	- talking heads

Gilbert Pilz Jr.    "Stay outta churches son, all they got the key to is
gil@banyan.com       the shithouse." - last words of Mortimer Carsons