[dannyobrien]

Wasn't the "Unix philosophy" explicitly formulated by Rob Kernighan in 1983 in opposition to this kind of growth? I mean, there's a whole website of Unix purists named after it:

'UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful' http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/

[biorach]

The Unix philosophy is to do one thing and do it well. The ssh command wraps the large and complicated ssh protocol - I would say it does one complicated job and does it well.

[mananaysiempre]

Also, however convenient or well-implemented it is, SSHv2 the protocol itself is very much an all-singing, all-dancing monolith that’s pretty much doomed to have an Implementation Of Unusual Size. The Plan 9 client[1] has less knobs but still quite a few, and it doesn’t even do forwarding as far as I can see.

[1] https://plan9.io/magic/man2html/1/ssh2

[morelisp]

> Rob Kernighan

Is this a typo or a proposed Bourbakism?