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edw519 on Oct 13, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plan to write big software - and you have already ...

This idea came to me as a tweet, but was way too long for a tweet.

No it wasn't...

"A lot of small things tied together intelligently is often better than one big thing."

owinebarger on Oct 13, 2009 [–]

That idea has a name, and it is "Unix". qmail remains my favorite example of this philosophy put into practice.

notaddicted on Oct 13, 2009 | [–]

Would you recommend the qmail source as good learning material?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=879101

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