The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
May 19, 2025•1,798 words
The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
Original article: http://www.wenet.net/~scoville/PCarticle.html
If there's nothing different about UNIX people, how come so many were liberal-arts majors?
It's the love of words that makes UNIX stand out.
Thomas Scoville
In the late 1980s, I worked in the advanced R&D arm of the Silicon Valley's regional telephone company. My lab was populated mostly by Ph.D.s and gifted hackers. It was, as you might expect, an all-UNIX shop.
The manager of the g...
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