[clug] Book & Wikipedia page: The Unix Philosophy

[Steve Jenkin]

Ok, so I'm waaay behind the times :-(
Just came across this 1994 book (US$42 on Amazon for 176pp) and Google hit a Wikipedia page first.

Does GNU, KDE, Linux or <insert your fave system/software> have similar tenets?


Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy>

Book: "The Unix Philosophy" by Mike Gancarz (1994)



Plan 9, for TTGAD, had explicit design principles:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#Design_concepts>

Or to quote its own doco:
<http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/9>o

> The view of the system is built upon three principles.
> First, resources are named and accessed like files in a hierarchical file system.
> Second, there is a standard protocol, called 9P, for accessing these resources.
> Third, the disjoint hierarchies provided by different services are joined together into a single private hierarchical file name space.

> The unusual properties of Plan 9 stem from the consistent, aggressive application of these principles. 

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