While you are correct in that macOS primarily isn’t composed of tools that “do one thing well”, macOS is still UNIX-certified under the Single UNIX Specification (identical to saying it’s POSIX-compliant and X/Open Curses compliant) and is literally a UNIX system. Most Linux and even BSD systems are not UNIX these days, though I’d say a higher proportion of their tools/components follow the UNIX philosophy.
Yours was as well. This conversation was actually a breath of fresh air, last time I conversed about this topic, it came down to an argument that lasted for days and left us both failing to come to an agreement!
I do see where you are getting at, but I would disagree on the philosophy.
The core UNIX principle is to design tools to do one thing and do it well. MacOS tools do not do this.
While you are correct in that macOS primarily isn’t composed of tools that “do one thing well”, macOS is still UNIX-certified under the Single UNIX Specification (identical to saying it’s POSIX-compliant and X/Open Curses compliant) and is literally a UNIX system. Most Linux and even BSD systems are not UNIX these days, though I’d say a higher proportion of their tools/components follow the UNIX philosophy.
It is, but keep in mind that the UNIX-certification is primarily something attained with money nowadays, not with parity in respect to UNIX.
The Open Group, the current holder of the UNIX trademark, bears no relation to Bell Labs whatsoever.
Very fair point, thanks.
Yours was as well. This conversation was actually a breath of fresh air, last time I conversed about this topic, it came down to an argument that lasted for days and left us both failing to come to an agreement!