> The Unix philosophy was like Lego: small parts that do simple things that can be put together in combinations to build greater things. If you can build it from the basic blocks, it's not a basic block.
And the normal programmer's logic is: "if it's not already integrated in the OS then I am not going to use it". So stream files it is, forever.
I think history has proven this. People are very risk-averse even if the risk is quite minor (example: using sqlite3 instead of the file system).
And the normal programmer's logic is: "if it's not already integrated in the OS then I am not going to use it". So stream files it is, forever.
I think history has proven this. People are very risk-averse even if the risk is quite minor (example: using sqlite3 instead of the file system).