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date | Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:00:38 +0200 |
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--- a/unix-phil.ms Sat Apr 10 11:10:38 2010 +0200 +++ b/unix-phil.ms Sat Apr 10 15:00:38 2010 +0200 @@ -61,11 +61,8 @@ Actually, the Unix Philosophy describes what is common to typical Unix software. The Wikipedia has an accurate definition: .[ -%A Wikipedia -%T Unix philosophy -%P Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia -%D 2010-03-21 17:20 UTC -%O .CW \s-1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unix_philosophy&oldid=351189719 +wikipedia +unix philosophy .] .QP .ps -1 @@ -79,32 +76,20 @@ .IP \(bu Doug McIlroy's summary: ``Write programs that do one thing and do it well.'' .[ -%A M. D. McIlroy -%A E. N. Pinson -%A B. A. Taque -%T UNIX Time-Sharing System Forward -%J The Bell System Technical Journal -%D 1978 -%V 57 -%N 6 -%P 1902 +mahoney +oral history .] .IP \(bu Mike Gancarz' book ``The UNIX Philosophy''. .[ -%A Mike Gancarz -%T The UNIX Philosophy -%D 1995 -%I Digital Press +gancarz +unix philosophy .] .IP \(bu Eric S. Raymond's book ``The Art of UNIX Programming''. .[ -%A Eric S. Raymond -%T The Art of UNIX Programming -%D 2003 -%I Addison-Wesley -%O .CW \s-1http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ +raymond +art of unix programming .] .LP These different views on the Unix Philosophy have much in common. @@ -132,11 +117,8 @@ like internally, are out of focus here. ``The Practice of Programming'' by Kernighan and Pike, .[ -%A Brian W. Kernighan -%A Rob Pike -%T The Practice of Programming -%I Addison-Wesley -%D 1999 +kernighan pike +practice of programming .] is a good book that covers this topic. Its point of view matches to the one of this paper. @@ -217,10 +199,7 @@ .PP The ISO/IEC 9126-1 standard, part 1, .[ -%I International Organization for Standardization -%T ISO Standard 9126: Software Engineering \(en Product Quality, part 1 -%C Geneve -%D 2001 +iso product quality .] defines the quality model as consisting out of: .IP \(bu @@ -336,8 +315,8 @@ ``it was this concept and notation for linking several programs together that transformed Unix from a basic file-sharing system to an entirely new way of computing.'' .[ -%T Unix: An Oral History -%O .CW \s-1http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm +aughenbaugh +unix oral history .] .PP Being able to specify pipelines in an easy way is, @@ -391,12 +370,10 @@ This is done by specifying arguments (``command line switches'') to the program call. Gancarz discusses this topic as ``avoid captive user interfaces''. .[ -%A Mike Gancarz -%T The UNIX Philosophy -%I Digital Press -%D 1995 +gancarz unix philosophy %P 88 ff. .] +.ds _p ", p. 88 ff. .PP Non-interactive use is, during development, also an advantage for testing. Testing of interactive programs is much more complicated, @@ -519,14 +496,8 @@ in application development. Fred Brooks writes in ``No Silver Bullet'': .[ -%A Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. -%T No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering -%B Information Processing 1986, the Proceedings of the IFIP Tenth World Computing Conference -%E H.-J. Kugler -%D 1986 -%P 1069\(en1076 -%I Elsevier Science B.V. -%C Amsterdam, The Netherlands +brooks +no silver bullet .] .QP .ps -1 @@ -613,9 +584,8 @@ While being alive it will get extended, rearranged, rebuilt (from scratch). Growing software matches the view that ``software is never finished. It is only released.'' .[ -%O FIXME -%A Mike Gancarz -%T The UNIX Philosophy +gancarz +unix philosophy %P 26 .] .PP @@ -624,8 +594,8 @@ This implies that the software is needed, useful, and better than alternatives. Darwin talks about: ``The survival of the fittest.'' .[ -%O FIXME -%A Charles Darwin +darwin +origin of species .] Transferred to software: The most successful software, is the fittest, is the one that survives. @@ -680,9 +650,8 @@ A good example in this point is Allman's sendmail. Allman identifies flexibility to be one major reason for sendmail's success: .[ -%O FIXME -%A Allman -%T sendmail +allman +sendmail .] .QP .ps -1 @@ -762,17 +731,15 @@ The first \s-1MUA\s0 on Unix was \f(CWmail\fP, which was already present in the First Edition. .[ -%A Peter H. Salus -%T A Quarter Century of UNIX -%D 1994 -%I Addison-Wesley +salus +quarter century of unix %P 41 f. .] It was a small program that either prints the user's mailbox file or appends text to someone elses mailbox file, depending on the command line arguments. .[ -%O http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/pdfs/man12.pdf +manual mail(1) .] It was a program that did one job well. This job was emailing, which was very simple then. @@ -789,8 +756,8 @@ It is designed for humans, but is still scriptable. \fImailx\fP is the adaptation of Berkeley Mail into System V. .[ -%A Gunnar Ritter -%O http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_history.html +ritter +mailx history .] Elm, pine, mutt, and a whole bunch of graphical \s-1MUA\s0s followed Mail's direction. @@ -814,20 +781,13 @@ the requirements of modern emailing. Today, nmh is developed by various people on the Internet. .[ -%T RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes -%A Willis H. Ware -%D 2008 -%I The RAND Corporation -%P 128\(en137 -%O .CW \s-1http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP537/ +ware +rand history +%P 128-137 .] .[ -%T MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers -%A Jerry Peek -%D 1991, 1992, 1995 -%I O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. -%P Appendix B -%O Also available online: \f(CW\s-2http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/\fP +peek +mh .] .NH 2 @@ -949,7 +909,7 @@ contexts. Public sequences are an exception, as they belong to the mail folder. .[ -%O mh-profile(5) and mh-sequence(5) +man page mh-profile mh-sequence .] .NH 2 @@ -969,8 +929,8 @@ Gancarz actually presents \s-1MH\s0 as example under the headline ``Making UNIX Do One Thing Well'': .[ -%A Mike Gancarz -%T unix-phil +gancarz +unix philosophy %P 125 .] .QP @@ -1035,13 +995,8 @@ These two tenets are indirectly, but nicely, demonstrated by Bolsky and Korn in their book about the Korn Shell. .[ -%T The KornShell: command and programming language -%A Morris I. Bolsky -%A David G. Korn -%I Prentice Hall -%D 1989 -%P 254\(en290 -%O \s-1ISBN\s0: 0-13-516972-0 +bolsky korn +korn shell .] They demonstrated, in chapter 18 of the book, a basic implementation of a subset of \s-1MH\s0 in ksh scripts. @@ -1128,7 +1083,8 @@ to ever create \s-1MH\s0. In Bruce' own words: .[ -%O FIXME +ware rand history +%P 132 .] .QP .ps -1 @@ -1230,9 +1186,10 @@ .XE .LP Uzbl was started by Dieter Plaetinck in April 2009. -The idea was born in a thread in the Arch Linux forum. +The idea was born in a thread in the Arch Linux Forums. .[ -%O http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67463 +arch linux forums +browser .] After some discussion about failures of well known web browsers, Plaetinck (alias Dieter@be) came up with a very sketchy proposal @@ -1471,8 +1428,8 @@ ``Right now I hardly code anything myself for Uzbl. I just merge in other people's code, ponder a lot, and lead the discussions.'' .[ -%A FIXME -%O http://lwn.net/Articles/341245/ +lwn +uzbl .]