The UNIX Philosophy From The UNIX Philosophy by Mike Gancarz.
Operating systems embody the philosophy of their creators.
DEC VMS assumes users fear the machine and should be given a few powerful choices The creators of Unix assumed that its users would be computer literate. Little effort was placed into making it accessible to novices. A Little History Ken Thompson wrote the first Unix at Bell Labs in 1969. In 1972 he rewrote it in a portable language called B which was later modified by Dennis Ritchie to become C in 1973. The philosophy is a result of more than twenty years of software development and has grown from the UNIX community instead of being enforced upon it.