From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: More directory junk
Article-I.D.: alice.1351
Posted: Tue Dec 28 19:59:26 1982
Received: Wed Dec 29 05:21:37 1982
References: linus.1033

Well, what's the basic premise of UNIX?  It's to provide an operating
system whereby small, powerful utilities can be grouped together to
form programs/routines/what-have-you of their own.  If we have to write
a separate C program for every job rather than using existing utilities
the way they're supposed to use, we defeat this purpose.  If the reason
for this is because the C programs are faster, more reliable, etc., it
just tells me that we have to make the smaller programs faster and more
reliable.  Otherwise, we're going to be reinventing the wheel forever.