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1.1 --- a/unix-phil.ms Sat Apr 10 11:10:38 2010 +0200 1.2 +++ b/unix-phil.ms Sat Apr 10 15:00:38 2010 +0200 1.3 @@ -61,11 +61,8 @@ 1.4 Actually, the Unix Philosophy describes what is common to typical Unix software. 1.5 The Wikipedia has an accurate definition: 1.6 .[ 1.7 -%A Wikipedia 1.8 -%T Unix philosophy 1.9 -%P Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia 1.10 -%D 2010-03-21 17:20 UTC 1.11 -%O .CW \s-1http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unix_philosophy&oldid=351189719 1.12 +wikipedia 1.13 +unix philosophy 1.14 .] 1.15 .QP 1.16 .ps -1 1.17 @@ -79,32 +76,20 @@ 1.18 .IP \(bu 1.19 Doug McIlroy's summary: ``Write programs that do one thing and do it well.'' 1.20 .[ 1.21 -%A M. D. McIlroy 1.22 -%A E. N. Pinson 1.23 -%A B. A. Taque 1.24 -%T UNIX Time-Sharing System Forward 1.25 -%J The Bell System Technical Journal 1.26 -%D 1978 1.27 -%V 57 1.28 -%N 6 1.29 -%P 1902 1.30 +mahoney 1.31 +oral history 1.32 .] 1.33 .IP \(bu 1.34 Mike Gancarz' book ``The UNIX Philosophy''. 1.35 .[ 1.36 -%A Mike Gancarz 1.37 -%T The UNIX Philosophy 1.38 -%D 1995 1.39 -%I Digital Press 1.40 +gancarz 1.41 +unix philosophy 1.42 .] 1.43 .IP \(bu 1.44 Eric S. Raymond's book ``The Art of UNIX Programming''. 1.45 .[ 1.46 -%A Eric S. Raymond 1.47 -%T The Art of UNIX Programming 1.48 -%D 2003 1.49 -%I Addison-Wesley 1.50 -%O .CW \s-1http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ 1.51 +raymond 1.52 +art of unix programming 1.53 .] 1.54 .LP 1.55 These different views on the Unix Philosophy have much in common. 1.56 @@ -132,11 +117,8 @@ 1.57 like internally, are out of focus here. 1.58 ``The Practice of Programming'' by Kernighan and Pike, 1.59 .[ 1.60 -%A Brian W. Kernighan 1.61 -%A Rob Pike 1.62 -%T The Practice of Programming 1.63 -%I Addison-Wesley 1.64 -%D 1999 1.65 +kernighan pike 1.66 +practice of programming 1.67 .] 1.68 is a good book that covers this topic. 1.69 Its point of view matches to the one of this paper. 1.70 @@ -217,10 +199,7 @@ 1.71 .PP 1.72 The ISO/IEC 9126-1 standard, part 1, 1.73 .[ 1.74 -%I International Organization for Standardization 1.75 -%T ISO Standard 9126: Software Engineering \(en Product Quality, part 1 1.76 -%C Geneve 1.77 -%D 2001 1.78 +iso product quality 1.79 .] 1.80 defines the quality model as consisting out of: 1.81 .IP \(bu 1.82 @@ -336,8 +315,8 @@ 1.83 ``it was this concept and notation for linking several programs together 1.84 that transformed Unix from a basic file-sharing system to an entirely new way of computing.'' 1.85 .[ 1.86 -%T Unix: An Oral History 1.87 -%O .CW \s-1http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm 1.88 +aughenbaugh 1.89 +unix oral history 1.90 .] 1.91 .PP 1.92 Being able to specify pipelines in an easy way is, 1.93 @@ -391,12 +370,10 @@ 1.94 This is done by specifying arguments (``command line switches'') to the program call. 1.95 Gancarz discusses this topic as ``avoid captive user interfaces''. 1.96 .[ 1.97 -%A Mike Gancarz 1.98 -%T The UNIX Philosophy 1.99 -%I Digital Press 1.100 -%D 1995 1.101 +gancarz unix philosophy 1.102 %P 88 ff. 1.103 .] 1.104 +.ds _p ", p. 88 ff. 1.105 .PP 1.106 Non-interactive use is, during development, also an advantage for testing. 1.107 Testing of interactive programs is much more complicated, 1.108 @@ -519,14 +496,8 @@ 1.109 in application development. 1.110 Fred Brooks writes in ``No Silver Bullet'': 1.111 .[ 1.112 -%A Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. 1.113 -%T No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering 1.114 -%B Information Processing 1986, the Proceedings of the IFIP Tenth World Computing Conference 1.115 -%E H.-J. Kugler 1.116 -%D 1986 1.117 -%P 1069\(en1076 1.118 -%I Elsevier Science B.V. 1.119 -%C Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1.120 +brooks 1.121 +no silver bullet 1.122 .] 1.123 .QP 1.124 .ps -1 1.125 @@ -613,9 +584,8 @@ 1.126 While being alive it will get extended, rearranged, rebuilt (from scratch). 1.127 Growing software matches the view that ``software is never finished. It is only released.'' 1.128 .[ 1.129 -%O FIXME 1.130 -%A Mike Gancarz 1.131 -%T The UNIX Philosophy 1.132 +gancarz 1.133 +unix philosophy 1.134 %P 26 1.135 .] 1.136 .PP 1.137 @@ -624,8 +594,8 @@ 1.138 This implies that the software is needed, useful, and better than alternatives. 1.139 Darwin talks about: ``The survival of the fittest.'' 1.140 .[ 1.141 -%O FIXME 1.142 -%A Charles Darwin 1.143 +darwin 1.144 +origin of species 1.145 .] 1.146 Transferred to software: The most successful software, is the fittest, 1.147 is the one that survives. 1.148 @@ -680,9 +650,8 @@ 1.149 A good example in this point is Allman's sendmail. 1.150 Allman identifies flexibility to be one major reason for sendmail's success: 1.151 .[ 1.152 -%O FIXME 1.153 -%A Allman 1.154 -%T sendmail 1.155 +allman 1.156 +sendmail 1.157 .] 1.158 .QP 1.159 .ps -1 1.160 @@ -762,17 +731,15 @@ 1.161 The first \s-1MUA\s0 on Unix was \f(CWmail\fP, 1.162 which was already present in the First Edition. 1.163 .[ 1.164 -%A Peter H. Salus 1.165 -%T A Quarter Century of UNIX 1.166 -%D 1994 1.167 -%I Addison-Wesley 1.168 +salus 1.169 +quarter century of unix 1.170 %P 41 f. 1.171 .] 1.172 It was a small program that either prints the user's mailbox file 1.173 or appends text to someone elses mailbox file, 1.174 depending on the command line arguments. 1.175 .[ 1.176 -%O http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/pdfs/man12.pdf 1.177 +manual mail(1) 1.178 .] 1.179 It was a program that did one job well. 1.180 This job was emailing, which was very simple then. 1.181 @@ -789,8 +756,8 @@ 1.182 It is designed for humans, but is still scriptable. 1.183 \fImailx\fP is the adaptation of Berkeley Mail into System V. 1.184 .[ 1.185 -%A Gunnar Ritter 1.186 -%O http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_history.html 1.187 +ritter 1.188 +mailx history 1.189 .] 1.190 Elm, pine, mutt, and a whole bunch of graphical \s-1MUA\s0s 1.191 followed Mail's direction. 1.192 @@ -814,20 +781,13 @@ 1.193 the requirements of modern emailing. 1.194 Today, nmh is developed by various people on the Internet. 1.195 .[ 1.196 -%T RAND and the Information Evolution: A History in Essays and Vignettes 1.197 -%A Willis H. Ware 1.198 -%D 2008 1.199 -%I The RAND Corporation 1.200 -%P 128\(en137 1.201 -%O .CW \s-1http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP537/ 1.202 +ware 1.203 +rand history 1.204 +%P 128-137 1.205 .] 1.206 .[ 1.207 -%T MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers 1.208 -%A Jerry Peek 1.209 -%D 1991, 1992, 1995 1.210 -%I O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1.211 -%P Appendix B 1.212 -%O Also available online: \f(CW\s-2http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/\fP 1.213 +peek 1.214 +mh 1.215 .] 1.216 1.217 .NH 2 1.218 @@ -949,7 +909,7 @@ 1.219 contexts. 1.220 Public sequences are an exception, as they belong to the mail folder. 1.221 .[ 1.222 -%O mh-profile(5) and mh-sequence(5) 1.223 +man page mh-profile mh-sequence 1.224 .] 1.225 1.226 .NH 2 1.227 @@ -969,8 +929,8 @@ 1.228 Gancarz actually presents \s-1MH\s0 as example under the headline 1.229 ``Making UNIX Do One Thing Well'': 1.230 .[ 1.231 -%A Mike Gancarz 1.232 -%T unix-phil 1.233 +gancarz 1.234 +unix philosophy 1.235 %P 125 1.236 .] 1.237 .QP 1.238 @@ -1035,13 +995,8 @@ 1.239 These two tenets are indirectly, but nicely, demonstrated by 1.240 Bolsky and Korn in their book about the Korn Shell. 1.241 .[ 1.242 -%T The KornShell: command and programming language 1.243 -%A Morris I. Bolsky 1.244 -%A David G. Korn 1.245 -%I Prentice Hall 1.246 -%D 1989 1.247 -%P 254\(en290 1.248 -%O \s-1ISBN\s0: 0-13-516972-0 1.249 +bolsky korn 1.250 +korn shell 1.251 .] 1.252 They demonstrated, in chapter 18 of the book, a basic implementation 1.253 of a subset of \s-1MH\s0 in ksh scripts. 1.254 @@ -1128,7 +1083,8 @@ 1.255 to ever create \s-1MH\s0. 1.256 In Bruce' own words: 1.257 .[ 1.258 -%O FIXME 1.259 +ware rand history 1.260 +%P 132 1.261 .] 1.262 .QP 1.263 .ps -1 1.264 @@ -1230,9 +1186,10 @@ 1.265 .XE 1.266 .LP 1.267 Uzbl was started by Dieter Plaetinck in April 2009. 1.268 -The idea was born in a thread in the Arch Linux forum. 1.269 +The idea was born in a thread in the Arch Linux Forums. 1.270 .[ 1.271 -%O http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67463 1.272 +arch linux forums 1.273 +browser 1.274 .] 1.275 After some discussion about failures of well known web browsers, 1.276 Plaetinck (alias Dieter@be) came up with a very sketchy proposal 1.277 @@ -1471,8 +1428,8 @@ 1.278 ``Right now I hardly code anything myself for Uzbl. 1.279 I just merge in other people's code, ponder a lot, and lead the discussions.'' 1.280 .[ 1.281 -%A FIXME 1.282 -%O http://lwn.net/Articles/341245/ 1.283 +lwn 1.284 +uzbl 1.285 .] 1.286 1.287