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Re: Is Postmodern Programming another name for Unix?

--- In postmodernprogramming@yahoogroups.com, Michael Feathers
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> I've been flipping through Eric Raymond's 'Art of Unix Programming'
> again, and it is neat to see what is the same and what is different
> compared to notions of good design that have developed in OO
communities.

Another technical community (with a hefty Modernist bias) has been
musing on the Unix way, too. See http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1210

Keith
Wed Feb 8, 2006 11:01 am

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I've updated the postmodernprogramming.org site with a report by Andrew Eland of the Scrapheap Challenge workshop he ran inside Google at the end of last year.... 		Nat Pryce
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I've been flipping through Eric Raymond's 'Art of Unix Programming' again, and it is neat to see what is the same and what is different compared to notions of...
Michael Feathers
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2:45 pm

... communities. ... One reason was that most of the solutions used Unix shell scripts and existing filters with a few custom filters to fill in the gaps....
nat_pryce
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4:37 pm

I inflicted it on my students in my new course. The only ones who really achieved anything used wget and grep. Many attempted solutions using MS Office, which...
Stephen Freeman
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8:47 pm

... Could you write it up? Brief notes would be enough. I can publish them onto the website. ... I posted Andrew's report on postmodernprogramming.org but...
Nat Pryce
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12:33 pm

... I'm intending to run the exercise again after they've seen some other technology. Let's see what happens. (I'm being over-optimistic again, aren't I...) As...
Stephen Freeman
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... The C++ programmers did very well, but typically the bulk of their solution was implemented as a UNIX shell pipeline. The C++ only covered tasks that would...
Andrew Eland
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... That's a great idea. --Nat...
nat_pryce
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9:34 am

Thanks Andrew. I've added the paragraph about the C++ solutions to your Google report on the postmodernprogramming.org website. --Nat ... at Google...
nat_pryce
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Another piece that struck me as relevant is Foote and Yoder's The Selfish Class [1]. Comparing the paper to Nat's write up [2] is striking. Maybe the reason...
Muness Alrubaie
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... Maybe the Unix way turns out to have captured a lot of what we mean by po-mo programming many epochs before the term in much the same way as Tristram...
Keith Braithwaite
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... communities. Another technical community (with a hefty Modernist bias) has been musing on the Unix way, too. See http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1210 ...
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