19 May
2024
19 May
'24
12:13 a.m.
I'm so grateful that we are able to work using Plan 9.
aztec% wc -l /sys/src/cmd/p.c
90 /sys/src/cmd/p.c
aztec%
So the size of Plan 9's paginator's source code is 208 lines smaller than the
help for that paginator. And it has no options.
Just say'n.
bwc
On May 18, 2024, at 2:07 PM, Douglas McIlroy
<douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
I just revisited this ironic echo of Mies van der Rohe's aphorism, "Less is
more".
% less --help | wc
298
Last time I looked, the line count was about 220. Bloat is self-catalyzing.
What prompted me to look was another disheartening discovery. The "small special
tool" Gnu diff has a 95-page manual! And it doesn't cover the option I was
looking up (-h). To be fair, the manual includes related programs like diff3(1), sdiff(1)
and patch(1), but the original manual for each fit on one page.
Doug