Better Living Through Thinking

Tenets of the Unix Philosophy

Thu, 24 Mar 2005

Mike Gancarz

<http://www.camalott.com/~jtpolk/unix/unixtenets.html>

As Henry Spencer said, "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."

This document outlines the most basic Unix tenets, which have had profound effects on modern software development.