Does Emacs violate the Unix philosophy of doing one thing very well?(quora.com)
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Does Emacs violate the Unix philosophy of doing one thing very well?
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The Unix philosophy isn't "do one thing well". It's "parse text from standard input, files, command line arguments and environment arguments in hacky way, do one thing okay-ishly, then spit out ambiguous text once again".
The best comment seen on Reddit is "it does one thing well, it's a perfect Lisp interpreter."
Nope. Emacs lets you do one thing well: Use a computer.