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Re:Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014) by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday June 10, 2016 @11:22AM (#11876983)
> The main design idea behind Unix is composition

I'm not sure how well-supported this is in the historical record.

You give /proc as an example, but it's first appearance was in the 80s, and it took until solaris in the early/mid 90s to really get going. ( https://blogs.oracle.com/eschrock/entry/the_power_of_proc )

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Re:Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014) by chubot on Friday June 10, 2016 @12:07PM (#11877383)
It is definitely well-supported -- I recommend reading http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/index.html (available in print too)
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Re:Doug McIlroy on Unix Taste (2014) by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday June 10, 2016 @03:48PM (#11879446)
I don't consider ESR to be an expert in anything except promoting himself.
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