[Python-Dev] YAGNI

[Eric S. Raymond]

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. <wink><wink>

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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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>