6 Mar
2024
6 Mar
'24
4:53 p.m.
From: Douglas McIlroy
<douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu>
Although I jumped into Unix as soon as it was born, I
was not one of
those who "start[ed] to develop it".
http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/pipes/
Dennis wrote that "UNIX is a very conservative system. Only a handful of its
ideas are genuinely new." (And quite right he was, too!) Among the ones that
are new, pipes, although less important now than they used to be, were a major
part of the constellation of things that drove its adoption, early on. And I
can't see how pushing pipes was not "developing UNIX"! I'm afraid
you'll just
have to live with it! :-)
Noel