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Thursday June 08, 2006

elements of style: unix as literature elements of unix style

just came across thomas scoville's 1998 piece elements of style: unix as literature through a friend's email.

The common thread was wordsmithing; a suspiciously high proportion of my UNIX colleagues had already developed, in some prior career, a comfort and fluency with text and printed words. They were adept readers and writers, and UNIX played handily to those strengths. UNIX was, in some sense, literature to them. Suddenly the overrepresentation of polyglots, liberal-arts types, and voracious readers in the UNIX community didn't seem so mysterious [...]

[musical selection: tbd]

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