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From: charlie@queets.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: cat -u
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Date: 10 Dec 88 21:16:08 GMT
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In article <146@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>
>What ever happened to the original Unix Philosophy of lots of little
>programs, each of which did exactly one job well, and which could be
>fitted together to do bigger jobs?  I've noticed that lots of people
>seem to dislike this approach, but I've yet to see any cogent argument
>against it.
>
Simple psychology.  Who wants to write a program that just concatenates 
files?  If your task is to write a text editor but your real ambition in 
life is to write a Lisp interpreter, what do you do?