• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
    8·
    10 months ago

    Everything does 1 thing, programs work together

    I think Linux just doing the kernel should count as Unix philosophy though

    • gens
      3·
      10 months ago

      Originally it was about code. Split it into reusable functions, and such.

      SyStEMd fans don’t understand, per usual.

        • gens
          4·
          10 months ago

          Reply was to you, but it’s still a public forum with a topic.

      • owsei
        1·
        10 months ago

        Is it not about chaining processes?

        IIRC the ideia was to use pipe (or other methods) to send one program’s output to another’s input

        But it very well could be about reusable functions, as code or as a .so file

        • gens
          3·
          10 months ago

          Hmm. I can’t find ehere i got that from, other then it being more general. https://cscie26.dce.harvard.edu/lectures/lect02/6_Extras/ch01s06.html

          Either way the whole point is to write programs/code that can interoperate and be composed. SysD programs comunicate over an “implementation is the specification” protocol, so they might as well be one blob instead of separate programs.