[kwlug-disc] UNIX in 1982

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

In previous threads, we discussed how newer
generations of developers and techies invent
new ways of doing things, while such ways
contradict wisdom that has very good reasons
of why it is there:

Examples include :

- shared libraries impact on resources, maintenance,
and security, vs. distributing statically linked mega
blobs
- giant programs that ignore the "do one thing well"
 principle,
- structured files vs. simple string of bytes
- The tendency to rewrite every old thing because
"old is bad" and new is better ...

This is a video about UNIX ease of use, from Bell
Labs. See the spelling check example, and the
file system paradigm parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw

And that was over a decade before Linux got any
traction.
-- 
Khalid M. Baheyeldin