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From: de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set  (was: How wrong is MS-DOS?)
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Date: 18 Jan 91 20:42:14 GMT
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Larry Wall: The Jenny Holzer of Computing

In article <11107@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
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>A language that overly encourages coining suffers rapid dialectical divergence.

What's `coining'?

>There's too much good code around.

Too much in some areas, not enough in others.  And lots of poorly
intergrated good code.

>There's More Than One Way To Do It.

Not heresy according to the UNIX "plumbing" philosophy.

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