On 02/05/2017 19:11, Steve Johnson wrote:There's definitely Rob Pike's talk "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful", which he delivered at the 1983 Usenix Association Conference and Software Tools USers Group Summer Conference. Unfortunately, I can't find it online. It's interesting that the talk's date is now closer to the birth of Unix than to the present.
I recall a paper Dennis wrote (maybe more like a note) that was titled
echo -c considered harmful
(I think it was -c). It decried the tendency, now completely out of
control, for everybody and their dog to piddle on perfectly good code
just because it's "open".
Diomidis