Re: *nix

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2020-02-15, John Kaufmann <kaufmann@nb.net> wrote:
>
> Just so. At what point does a small and natural generalization of "one
> thing" become more complex than a new thing? Simplicity is the friend,
> complexity the enemy; order the friend, entropy the enemy. It takes a
> lifetime of design to see where to draw those lines, and we never stop
> learning.

That members of the most generalist species on earth should extol the
merits of the most extreme form of specialisation is something of an
ironic puzzlement here in the balcony seats.

> [But it was nice to be reminded of a time when programming was often
> seen as a generalization of list processing.]
>
>


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