tempforever said on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:50:45 -0500

>Bruce Perens via Dng wrote:
>>
>> But is the "Unix Way" still meaningful after 50 years? It was mostly
>> built for a pipes and filters text processing paradigm that we have
>> outgrown.
>Not all of us have outgrown this. :-)

That's for dam sure!

"Outgrown" is just another dog-whistle for the Appeal to Novelty
fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_novelty

Homo Erectus were cooking their meat a million years ago, and we still
cook our meat today. Sometimes the old stuff is the best. Well, if you
don't want trichinosis.

SteveT

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