>> they want widgety, simple applications that do one thing well.
Oh my - THAT is a familiar phrase! I think as the general population become more tech-savvy and networking becomes vastly more important, that philosophy will be a big deal. Go UNIX!
Oh my - THAT is a familiar phrase! I think as the general population become more tech-savvy and networking becomes vastly more important, that philosophy will be a big deal. Go UNIX!
Doug McIlroy, the inventor of Unix pipes and one of the founders of the Unix tradition, summarized the philosophy as follows:
This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.