Mercurial > docs > unix-phil
changeset 14:59305c854751
rearrangements of headlines; summary (ch03)
author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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date | Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:23:19 +0100 |
parents | c665b9e7bf8a |
children | 00e306ee903b |
files | unix-phil.ms |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/unix-phil.ms Sun Feb 21 14:52:53 2010 +0100 +++ b/unix-phil.ms Sun Feb 21 17:23:19 2010 +0100 @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ and shows concrete examples of its application. .SH -Examples +Pipes .LP Following are some examples to demonstrate how applied Unix Philosophy feels like. Knowledge of using the Unix shell is assumed. @@ -268,10 +268,7 @@ to get the desired output. There are also other ways to get the same output. It's a user's decision which way to go. - -.SH -Pipes -.LP +.PP The examples show that many tasks on a Unix system are accomplished by combining several small programs. The connection between the single programs is denoted by the pipe operator `|'. @@ -296,7 +293,7 @@ They have to interfaces that allows them to be used in such a way. .SH -Interface architecture +Interface design .LP Unix is, first of all, simple \(en Everything is a file. Files are sequences of bytes, without any special structure. @@ -628,11 +625,21 @@ but parts of it become successful instead? .SH -Results +Summary .LP -The unix phil is an answer to the sw design question -.LP -tool chains empower the uses of sw +This chapter explained the central ideas of the Unix Philosophy. +For each of the ideas, it was exposed what advantages they introduce. +The Unix Philosophy are guidelines that help to write valuable software. +From the view point of a software developer or software designer, +the Unix Philosophy provides answers to many software design problem. +.PP +The various ideas of the Unix Philosophy are very interweaved +and can hardly be applied independently. +However, the probably most important messages are: +.I "``Do one thing well!''" , +.I "``Keep it simple!''" , +and +.I "``Use software leverage!''