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diff --git a/docs/harmful.cat-v.org_cat-v.txt b/docs/harmful.cat-v.org_cat-v.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..841183a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/harmful.cat-v.org_cat-v.txt @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ + [1]quotes | [2]docs | [3]repo | [4]golang | [5]sam | [6]man | [7]acme | + [8]Glenda | [9]9times | [10]harmful | [11]9P | [12]cat-v.org + + Related sites: | [13]site updates | [14]site map | + + [15]cat -v harmful stuff + + * [16]> Blog/ + * [17]» cat v/ + * [18]> economics/ + * [19]> films/ + * [20]> journalism/ + * [21]> people/ + * [22]> science/ + * [23]> security theater/ + * [24]> society/ + * [25]> software/ + * [26]> standards/ + * [27]> words/ + + UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful + + At the USENIX Summer Conference of 1983 [28]Rob Pike made a + presentation titled `[29]UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful' and + together with [30]Brian Kernighan wrote the paper `Program Design in + the UNIX Environment' ([31]pdf version, [32]ps version), published as + an article in [33]AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, October + 1984, Vol. 63 No. 8 Part 2. + + This was a prelude for their famous book [34]The Unix Programming + Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series) that today is considered + the bible of Unix. + + Unfortunately their advice has been completely ignored, and today Unix + has become overcome by exactly the kind of mistakes they warned + against. +Bell Laboratories + +Murray Hill, NJ (dec!ucb)wav!research!rob + +It seems that UNIX has become the victim of cancerous growth at the hands of +organizations such as UCB. 4.2BSD is an order of magnitude larger than Version +5, but, Pike claims, not ten times better. + +The talk reviews reasons for UNIX's popularity and shows, using UCB cat as a +primary example, how UNIX has grown fat. cat isn't for printing files with line +numbers, it isn't for compressing multiple blank lines, it's not for looking at +non-printing ASCII characters, it's for concatenating files. + +We are reminded that ls isn't the place for code to break a single column into +multiple ones, and that mailnews shouldn't have its own more processing or joke +encryption code. + +Rob carried the standard well for the "spirit of UNIX," and you can look +forward to a deeper look at the philosophy of UNIX in his forthcoming book. + + [35]Powered by werc + + ____________________ Search + +References + + 1. http://quotes.cat-v.org/ + 2. http://doc.cat-v.org/ + 3. http://repo.cat-v.org/ + 4. http://go-lang.cat-v.org/ + 5. http://sam.cat-v.org/ + 6. http://man.cat-v.org/ + 7. http://acme.cat-v.org/ + 8. http://glenda.cat-v.org/ + 9. http://ninetimes.cat-v.org/ + 10. http://harmful.cat-v.org/ + 11. http://9p.cat-v.org/ + 12. http://cat-v.org/ + 13. http://cat-v.org/update_log + 14. http://harmful.cat-v.org/sitemap + 15. http://harmful.cat-v.org/ + 16. http://harmful.cat-v.org/Blog/ + 17. http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ + 18. http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/ + 19. http://harmful.cat-v.org/films/ + 20. http://harmful.cat-v.org/journalism/ + 21. http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/ + 22. http://harmful.cat-v.org/science/ + 23. http://harmful.cat-v.org/security-theater/ + 24. http://harmful.cat-v.org/society/ + 25. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ + 26. http://harmful.cat-v.org/standards/ + 27. http://harmful.cat-v.org/words/ + 28. http://genius.cat-v.org/rob-pike/ + 29. http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/ + 30. http://genius.cat-v.org/brian-kernighan/ + 31. http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf + 32. http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.ps + 33. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=at%26t%20bell%20laboratories%20technical%20journal + 34. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/013937681X?ie=UTF8&tag=catv-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=013937681X + 35. http://werc.cat-v.org/ |