Xref: utzoo comp.unix.misc:843 comp.lang.perl:3610 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: UNIX mind-set (was: How wrong is MS-DOS?) Message-ID: <5396@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 20 Jan 91 23:29:38 GMT References: <1991Jan18.032416.27559@decuac.dec.com> <11107@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1991Jan18.204214.3739@cs.utk.edu> Followup-To: comp.unix.misc Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 6 >>There's More Than One Way To Do It. > >Not heresy according to the UNIX "plumbing" philosophy. Except for the version of that philosophy that says "the only way to do it is by gluing a bunch of filters together in a pipeline...."