20 Sep
2019
20 Sep
'19
2:33 a.m.
Serious question:
Which is better, creating a whole new binary to put in /usr/bin to do a
single task, or add a flag to cat?
Which is better, a proliferation of binaries w/standalone source code,
or a single code tree that can handle slightly different tasks and save
space?
:)
art k.
PS: Using argv[0] (as in a symbolic link) to alter a program's behavior
instead of using flags is cheating on the above test.
On 9/19/2019 4:18 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 03:00:16PM -0400, Nemo Nusquam
wrote:
On 09/19/19 14:50, Norman Wilson wrote (in
part):
Rob Pike
So it's true that BSD added needless (in my
humble but correct
opinion) options, but not that it had none before they touched it.
Unless all those other programs were stuffed into cat in an earlier
Berkeley system, but I don't think they were.
Who said "Cat came back
from Berkeley waving flags."?