3 Aug
2014
3 Aug
'14
1:36 a.m.
On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Doug McIlroy wrote:
A modern-day analog of the undisciplined exuberance of
emacs and vi:
for a good time on linux try
less --help | wc
Arrgghh! Same on Mac and BSD systems.
An interesting question is how the corrective of taste
manages ever to
recenter the exuberance of evolution. The birth of Unix shows it can
happen. When will it happen again? Can one cite small-scale examples
that gained traction within the larger evolution of Unix?
Closest I can think of is public key crypto, strong hashes, etc. Easy to
explain in general terms, difficult to implement correctly, and had a heck
of an influence.
-- Dave