If you're talking about applications that can be made to act how their namesake predecessors did 30 years ago, sure. The Unix mindset is all about that.

But don't be fooled into thinking that anything on a modern Unix-like system hasn't been modified, patched or rewritten from scratch at some point in the last 30 years. More than once. Even /bin/false has a changelog.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 73 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Slightly pedantic, but according to core-utils GitHub, false.c has not been changed in 21 years. But true.c, which is what false.c is based on, has been changed as recent as 4 months ago.

~I couldn’t resist looking it up, and found the results mildly interesting.~

[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 30 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

you mispelled super interesting

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago

You misspelled misspell 🤪

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