[wellylug] MicrosoftNZ at WellyLUG?

[David Antliff]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> I would say the elegance of Unix is it's effective security 
> architecture, it's multi-user right-from-scratch architecture, and it's 
> philosophy of, and actual implemented support for, stringing processes 
> together to get work done without writing a new GUI tool for every 
> little thing.

On this point, I've been reading this:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/

Even for non-programmers, this section is worth reading:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html

It's one good way of saying what Unix *is* by describing what it's meant 
to be.

-- 
David.