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    The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development....
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    allows Unix to operate on numerous platforms. Unix systems are characterized by a modular design that is sometimes called the "Unix philosophy". According...
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  • considered an important and early document of the Unix operating system. The book addresses the Unix philosophy of small cooperating tools with standardized...
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    Utilities List of GNU packages List of KDE applications List of Unix daemons Unix philosophy util-linux "FreeBSD Manual Pages: time". man.freebsd.org. July...
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    UNIX Specification. A Unix-like application is one that behaves like the corresponding Unix command or shell. Although there are general philosophies...
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  • Packard Henry Spencer Ken Thompson Unix philosophy The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age "The Art of Unix Programming". This book and its...
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  • A Unix architecture is a computer operating system system architecture that embodies the Unix philosophy. It may adhere to standards such as the Single...
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  • on the right. The Unix philosophy encourages combining small, discrete tools to accomplish larger tasks. The classic filter in Unix is Ken Thompson's...
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    minimalist web browser designed for simplicity and adherence to the Unix philosophy. Development began in early 2009 and is still considered in alpha software...
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  • The Berkeley sockets API represents it as a file descriptor in the Unix philosophy that provides a common interface for input and output to streams of...
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  • Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...
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    additional, unnecessary features, the Unix philosophy was developed in the 1970s by Bell Labs employees working on the Unix operating system such as Ken Thompson...
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    use. The desktop environment is designed to embody the traditional Unix philosophy of modularity and re-usability, as well as adherence to standards;...
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  • tabbed, and other programs that are said to adhere strictly to the Unix philosophy of "doing one thing and doing it well". The development team follows...
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  • transfer (REST) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) Microfrontend Unix philosophy Self-contained system (software) Serverless computing Web-oriented...
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  • Feature creep Inner-platform effect Osborne effect Sophomore slump Unix philosophy Raymond, Eric. "Second-system effect". The Jargon File. Retrieved June...
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  • Richard Stallman and saw related ideas that are important in the design philosophy of Unix, and more generally in the open-source movement, both of which were...
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  • repeat yourself (DRY) Minimalism Unix philosophy Arch Linux Slackware Linux Chartjunk List of software development philosophies Reduced instruction set computing...
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    championed by Douglas McIlroy at Unix's ancestral home of Bell Labs, during the development of Unix, shaping its toolbox philosophy. It is named by analogy to...
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  • Overengineering Premature optimization Single-responsibility principle SOLID Unix philosophy Worse is better Extreme Programming Installed, Jeffries, Ronald E.;...
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  • various Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Not all of these browsers are specific to these operating systems; some are available on non-Unix systems...
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    support of ballistic and electromagnetic analyses. In keeping with the Unix philosophy of developing independent tools to perform single, specific tasks and...
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  • deviance Open–closed principle Protocol ossification Static discipline Unix philosophy Postel, Jon, ed. (January 1980). Transmission Control Protocol. IETF...
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    Douglas McIlroy (category Unix people)
    McIlroy is best known for having originally proposed Unix pipelines and developed several Unix tools, such as echo, spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak...
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  • is better" design philosophy that they felt Unix and much of its software encapsulated. The book is based on messages sent to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list...
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    extracting. Not only does separating archiving from compressing follow the Unix philosophy that each tool should provide a single capability; not attempt to accomplish...
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  • Minimalism (computing) (category Software development philosophies)
    Minimalism is implicit in the Unix philosophies of "everything is a text stream" and "do one thing and do it well", although modern Unix/Linux distributions do...
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    aligns the construction principles of microkernels with Unix philosophy. In line with Unix philosophy, Genode is a collection of small building blocks, out...
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  • design) There's more than one way to do it Uniform access principle Unix philosophy Worse is better You aren't gonna need it (YAGNI) Davis 201 Principles...
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    interface design in Unix derivatives. While this turn of phrase does not as such figure as a Unix design principle or philosophy, it is a common way to...
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