DB seems to have taken my jest a bit too seriously....:-)
David Boyes wrote:
Since when has U*ix ever followed the Principle of Least Astonishment?
Well, anyone who's ever been conscious while reading Kernigan and Plauger
has no excuse not to. Certainly, the classic Unix commands obey it. Later
additions are less well-designed.
So true.....
Software development is like any other field -- the bozo giving commands is
in control, and garbage in produces garbage out.
This seems perfectly in keeping with the long, if not so
noble U*ix tradition of commands doing odd things and not
telling the user about
them....;-)
Properly designed software doesn't do that.
And most software, whither U*ix or not, isn't, imho.
DJ
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