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No tool is perfect. The unix philosophy is a philosophy, not a dogma. It serves well in some use cases. And in the other use case, you’re perfectly fine to put the whole domain in a single program. The hammer has been there for millennia, but once we invented screw, we had to invent the screwdriver.


The point is that Unix philosophy is mostly a retroactive justification of why things are the way they are, and not really a coherent philosophy that drove the design of those things, even though it is now often represented as such.


Correct. The Unix philosophy is based on hagiography.


That's the point of philosophy: to give a coherent, empirical explanation on why that thing is good or bad.


"The unix philosophy is a philosophy, not a dogma"

Shame that it is dogmatically followed by a very loud but vocal minority.




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