Do one thing and do it well
Well I was just reading something and the unix philosophy of “do one thing and do it well” came up. This is a rather good way to go about things. It was also mentioned that that would not be a philosophy os a *nix OS. I would think quite the contrary would be true. With computers if you can do one thing well, you can take that same one thing at make it run simultaneously. To the OS it is only doing one thing. It doesn’t care that it is doing “one thing” so fast that to us it appears it is doing 10,000,000 at once.
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