[TUHS] Who stated that the power of Unix stems from the wise choice of a few design principles rather than the endless accumulation of special cases

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Try looking at the original 1974 CACM paper on Unix by Ken & DMR.
I suspect you'll find something like that there.

HTH,

Arnold

Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr> wrote:

> I seem to recall reading that the power of Unix stems from the wise 
> choice of a few design principles rather than the endless accumulation 
> of special cases.  However, I cannot find where this is stated.  I tried 
> a Google web and a Google Scholar search using the terms "unix endless 
> accumulation special cases", and I also asked ChatGPT for a publication 
> associated with this phrase.  I also searched for "special" in 
> D.M.Ritchie's "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System"  and "The 
> UNIX Time-sharing System␔ A Retrospective".  (Amazingly, both have 
> several parts that still highly relevant.)
>
> Can anyone help?  Am I misremembering something?