2 May
2017
2 May
'17
9:22 p.m.
On Tuesday, May 2, 2017, Diomidis Spinellis <dds(a)aueb.gr> wrote:
On 02/05/2017 19:11, Steve Johnson wrote:
This talk is today as legendary as Plato's "On the Good"
lecture[1].
[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/4182081
--Andy
I recall a paper Dennis wrote (maybe more like a
note) that was titled
echo -c considered harmful
(I think it was -c). It decried the tendency, now completely out of
control, for everybody and their dog to piddle on perfectly good code
just because it's "open".
There's definitely Rob Pike's talk "UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered
Harmful", which he delivered at the 1983 Usenix Association Conference and
Software Tools USers Group Summer Conference. Unfortunately, I can't find
it online. It's interesting that the talk's date is now closer to the
birth of Unix than to the present.