[Python-Dev] YAGNI (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:21:11 -0500

Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>:

I believe the first couple Unix programmers did, though I doubt they thought of it in precisely that acronym. It was the masses that followed (probably influenced by some expatriate VMS programmers) who got carried away with adding thirty-leven options to every little filter.

No, it wasn't the masses. It was the FSF.

At this point, most people have forgotten what the Unix toolkit was like before the GNU project replaced most of it. Many, many fewer options per filter...

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