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Did Rob Pike say that the Unix Philosophy is no longer as relevant as it once was? [closed]
In an interview with Slashdot, Rob Pike said the following about the Unix Philosophy:
8) One tool for one job? - by sczimme Given the nature of current
operating systems and applications, do you ...
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Has the Unix Philosophy been abandoned in web application design?
The Unix Philosophy encourages the use of small, generically reusable cooperating programs that collaborate with forms of inter-process communication like pipes, fifos, sockets, as opposed to shared ...
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Correct handling of Python2 and Python3
What is the correct way running scripts that depend on python2.x but on a system where python3.x is aliased with python.
The solution should take into account the following things :
Python2 ...
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Unix and Linux without a file system?
I was reading Eric Raymond's the Art of Unix Programming, (Amazon and online) and at the very beginning of the book where he analyses what Unix does wrong he says:
Having a file system at all may ...
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What's the “Unix way” for a CLI app to report no arguments specified?
I'm developing an application which I'd like to follow the "Unix way."
What should I program it to do in case it is called with no arguments (which makes no practical sense):
display an error ...
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Why index files?
I installed Linux on something like 3 or 4 different machines last year, and in two cases, I had a serious urge to vomit after noting that file indexers such as virtuoso (Debian testing with the ...
