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From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
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Previously Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Wow, great!  No more tons of tiny executables!  Wow!  Looks
> very good.  Just like `cvs' now -- "cvs co", "cvs add" etc...

Compare with: wow! instead of a few simple modular applications we
now get a single one which tries to do everything. I'm not convinced
this is a step forward, the UNIX philosophy of having lots of small
single-purpose tools is a good one.

Wichert.

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