Re: breadboarding fast, tiny stuff

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:58:58 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Phil Hobbs wrote:
Jeroen Belleman wrote:
Joerg wrote:

Then it may be ok but it sure will trigger a questions from clients
like "What's that?". Why do we need a myriad of formats when there is
zip?



I think the real question is: Why do we need myriad formats when we
have tar? It probably predates them all. All those young whipper-
snappers keep re-inventing the wheel. Oh well.

Jeroen Belleman

(Now let's have some archive format history...)

Tar is not a compressed format--zip dates from the days of 360k
floppies, remember!

Well, that brings up another point: Archiving and data compression
are two independent functions. The whole philosophy of UNIX-like
systems used to be to have programs that did one thing well, and
that you could pipe together in various ways. This is amazingly
powerful, once you get the hang of it.

This is totally lost on today's developers, who all seem to make
programs that do-it-all-and-then-some. That leads to many different
implementations of the same sort of functionality, all incompatible
to some extent and all with different idiosyncratic bugs.

Jeroen Belleman

It has been called creeping featuritis. Its roots began in the early
1960's with FORTRAN II and PL1.

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