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Except the part that BSD is one of the surviving UNIXes.


Which should drive home the point that "everything is a file" does not accurately describe the reality of the Unix "philosophy".


If none of the Unix shells are remotely compliant with the "Unix Philosophy", then what is the "Unix Philosophy" other than inaccurate after the fact rationalization and bullshit?

Name one shell that's "Unix Philosophy Compliant". To the extent that they do comply to the "Unix Philosophy" by omitting crucial features like floating point and practical string manipulation, they actually SUFFER and INTRODUCE unnecessary complexity and enormous overhead.


> "If none of the Unix shells are remotely compliant with the "Unix Philosophy", then what is the "Unix Philosophy" other than inaccurate after the fact rationalization and bullshit?"

Precisely that! It's post-hoc rationalization and bullshit, that's the point I was driving at.




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