Throughout the history of computing, countless technologies have emerged—and just as many have disappeared. Some were innovative but too complex to survive. Others were forgotten because they arrived at the wrong time. Still others once dominated the world, only to quietly fade away as new technologies took their place. Yet amid all this change, there are a few things that have endured with almost no change at all.
They are the small Unix commands and the design philosophy behind them.
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