Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014)

Re:Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014) by uudecode on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:29AM (#11874483)

Negative coding. Eliminate cruft. Drop "features". Go small. Stop modifying the same program to do more. Finish.

Open to interpretation but that's my take. You use the word "elegance" and I think that's the idea. Alas, software usually does not "evolve" toward elegance.

tr -h | wc

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Re:Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014) by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday June 10, 2016 @08:35AM (#11875893)

$ tr -h

tr: illegal option -- h

usage: tr [-Ccsu] string1 string2

       tr [-Ccu] -d string1

       tr [-Ccu] -s string1

       tr [-Ccu] -ds string1 string2

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Re:Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014) by uudecode on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:18AM (#11876504)

That's GNU, I'm guessing. BSD is a little different.

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Re:Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014) by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday June 10, 2016 @10:20AM (#11876521)

TR(1) BSD General Commands Manual TR(1)

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Re:Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014) by uudecode on Friday June 10, 2016 @09:25PM (#11881499)

FreeBSD. Got it. But not OpenBSD, NetBSD, or Solaris. Interesting how even with a relatively simple utility like tr, changes were made.

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