![]() A philosophy, by existing, defines what it is and thus implicitly delineates what it is not. Philosophies with the cardinal virtue of liberating adherents can never afford to shed all limitations for the simple fact that philosophies without doctrines are self-effacing. All these design choices consciously facilitated user freedom.īut this bears an important caveat: freedom has reasonable implied limits. To that end, Unix’s brain-parents also ensured effortless interoperation via the common interface of textual data. This is because its creators believed that a handful of default tools should allow users to do anything imaginable. To touch on one such trait that is relevant to the point I want to make, I love that Unix’s simplest tools are also its most versatile. Through all its evolution, at its heart Unix retains the charm that I have previously remarked on. ![]() But when I grasped Unix, through the imperfect medium of Linux, it made intuitive sense to me. Before I learned computer science, I thought all computers were impenetrably arcane. I’ve often extolled the philosophy of Unix, and as the title implies, I’m not about to stop. The ‘Unix Way’ Has a Right Way That’s Almost a Lost Way.
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