[mtrn]

I liked reading: Program design in the UNIX environment by Rob Pike. Sometimes, when I think about which features to add to a program I step back to see, whether a combination of program would actually yield better results. A practical view into what orthogonality could mean in the tooling world.

[1] https://nymity.ch/sybilhunting/pdf/Pike1983a.pdf

[igolden]

Awesome recommendation

[santix]

Good one.

At the bottom of page 3 it says that on UNIX V7 they added an unbuffered (-u) option to cat and then removed it on V8. Does anybody know why they removed it?

I checked out the man for the GNU version and it says

  -u     (ignored)