[skydhash]

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.

[int_19h]

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.

[flavio81]

Correct. The Unix philosophy is based on hagiography.

[skydhash]

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

[sbuk]

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

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