What I actually admire
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix. Erik Naggum
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What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix. Erik Naggum
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. Eric S. Raymond
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. Eric S. Raymond
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier – Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. Eric S. Raymond
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself – and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure. Eric Allman
This is the Unix philosophy. Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs that handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. Douglas McIlroy
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. Douglas Gwyn
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. Donald Knuth
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new Dennis Ritchie
It’s true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate. Dennis Ritchie