[TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)

[Dave Horsfall]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> A modern-day analog of the undisciplined exuberance of emacs and vi:
> for a good time on linux try
>         less --help | wc

Arrgghh!  Same on Mac and BSD systems.

> An interesting question is how the corrective of taste manages ever to 
> recenter the exuberance of evolution. The birth of Unix shows it can 
> happen. When will it happen again? Can one cite small-scale examples 
> that gained traction within the larger evolution of Unix?

Closest I can think of is public key crypto, strong hashes, etc.  Easy to 
explain in general terms, difficult to implement correctly, and had a heck 
of an influence.

-- Dave