One tool for one job?
Given the nature of current operating systems and applications, do you think the idea of "one tool doing one job well" has been abandoned? If so, do you think a return to this model would help bring some innovation back to software development?
(It's easier to toss a small, single-purpose app and start over than it is to toss a large, feature-laden app and start over.)
Rob Pike: Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl.
| Author | Rob Pike |
| Work | Slashdot Interview |
| Published | 2010-06-21 |