> Tim> Heck, if Unix dweebs had applied YAGNI, ls wouldn't have 51 useless > Tim> options <wink>. > > I believe the first couple Unix programmers did, though I doubt they thought > of it in precisely that acronym. It was the masses that followed (probably > influenced by some expatriate VMS programmers) who got carried away with > adding thirty-leven options to every little filter. <wink><wink> > > Skip I remember that way back at CWI we called "the BSD disease" -- after our sysadmin had installed 4.0 BSD on our VAX, we were appalled by the code size growth of most common utilities. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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