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El Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:04:24 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro escribió:

> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:04:54 -0000 (UTC), Bozo User wrote:
> 
>> Perl is more awk+sed+sh in a single language. Basically the killer of
>> the Unix philophy in late 90's/early 00's, and for the good.
> 
> That’s what Rob Pike said
> <https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pike-
responds>:
> 
>     Q: “Given the nature of current operating systems and applications,
>     do you think the idea of "one tool doing one job well" has been
>     abandoned?”
>     A: “Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by
>     Perl.”
> 
> But I’m not sure I agree. Those small, specialized tools always required
> large, monolithic pieces under them to operate: the shell itself for
> shell scripts, the X server for GUI apps, the kernel itself for
> everything. So while the coming of Perl has changed some things,
> it has not made a difference to the modularity of the Unix way.

The shell could be changed as just a command launcher with no 
conditionals, while perl doing all the hard work.

On X11/X.org, X11 was never very "Unix like" by itself.