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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by pjmlp on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:57PM (#30860673)
The philosophy that is cargo culted and was never taken seriously by any commercial UNIX.
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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by random314 on Thursday March 31, 2022 @04:09AM (#30864935)
Moreover when folks talk about doing only one thing and one thing well, they are referring to command line utilities and pipes. And pipes were an invention of Doug mclroy, not Ritchie or Thompson.

And the unix command-pipe philosophy is realized much better as ordinary functions in a functional programming language.

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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by pjmlp on Thursday March 31, 2022 @04:22AM (#30865005)
Indeed, the UNIX CLI is a poor man's experience compared with a Lisp REPL, Smalltalk transcript or Oberon commands session.
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