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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1304)	3/13/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2617

Key Unix design principles: 1. prolix the obfuscation by the interface of the design paradigm recursively 2. simple is best is the illusion of the principle of operation unless someone understands the actual reason for the implementation, and if so refer to rule 1. 3. modular code that is clean and does easy to understand unit tasks may be written. See the infinite monkeys precept. 4. If 3 happens, call the code part of the legacy of primitive days before they understood how to make Unix consultation a fine art and tell people that it is unfortunate that in development of so many machines that some code got inextricably wound up in the kernel and could not be removed. 5. manuals should explain how to thread the canals of parnassus in a bathtub in Linear B script. Any resemblance to an explanation of how to use a command like Search: "searches text for words or phrases, uses wildcards and gives line numbers and file names as result. syntax: command,(space)"text to search for" (space)"textfiles/directories/or *(all)" is purely hilarious. All manual writers should be tested for incomprehensibility. If they are totally unfathomable in any language they are merely ok. 6. Any command with less than 48 switches is a Cat in the Hat book.