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[I ran across these on a Unix salesman's wall and haven't seen them posted | |
before. I modified them here and there. Followups are in net.jokes.] | |
People who come into contact with the Unix system are often told, | |
"If you have trouble, see so-and-so, he's a guru", or "Bob there is | |
a real Unix hacker." | |
What is a "Unix Wizard"? How does s/he differ from a "guru"? | |
To explore these and other questions, here is a draft of the "Unix Hierarchy": | |
NAME DESCRIPTION AND FEATURES | |
beginner - insecure with the concept of a terminal | |
- has yet to learn the basics of vi | |
- has not figured out how to get a directory | |
- still has trouble with typing <RETURN> | |
after each line of input | |
novice - knows that "ls" will produce a directory | |
- uses the editor, but calls it "vye" | |
- has heard of "C" but never used it | |
- has had a bad experience with rm | |
- is wondering how to read mail | |
- is wondering why the person next door | |
seems to like Unix so very much | |
user - uses vi and nroff, but inexpertly | |
- has heard of regular expressions but never seen one. | |
- has figured out that '-' precedes options | |
- has attempted to write a C program but decided | |
to stick with Pascal | |
- is wondering how to move a directory | |
- thinks that dbx is a brand of stereo component | |
- knows how to read mail and is wondering how | |
to read the news | |
knowledgeable - uses nroff with no trouble, and is beginning | |
user to learn tbl and eqn | |
- uses grep to search for fixed strings | |
- has figured out that mv(1) will move directories | |
- has learned that "learn" doesn't help | |
- somebody has shown her how to write C programs | |
- once used sed but checked the file afterward | |
- watched somebody use dbx once | |
- tried "make" but used spaces instead of tabs | |
expert - uses sed when necessary | |
- uses macros in vi, uses ex when necessary | |
- posts news at every possible opportunity | |
- is still wondering how to successfully reply to mail | |
- writes csh scripts occasionally | |
- writes C programs using vi and compiles with make | |
- has figured out what && and || are for | |
- uses fgrep because somebody said it was faster | |
hacker - uses sed and awk with comfort | |
- uses undocumented features of vi | |
- writes C code with "cat >" and compiles with "!cc" | |
- uses adb because she doesn't trust source debuggers | |
- figured out how environment variables are propagated | |
- writes her own nroff macros to supplement the standard | |
ones | |
- writes Bourne shell scripts | |
- installs bug fixes from the net | |
- uses egrep because she timed it | |
guru - uses m4 and lex with comfort | |
- writes assembler code with "cat >" | |
- uses adb on the kernel while the system is loaded | |
- customizes Unix utilities by patching the source | |
- reads device driver source with breakfast | |
- uses "ed" because "ex" is a Berkeleyism | |
- can answer any unix question after a little thought | |
- uses make for anything that requires two or more commands | |
- has learned how to breach security but no longer | |
needs to try | |
- is putting James Woods/Henry Spencer egrep into her | |
next Unix release | |
wizard - writes device drivers with "cat >" | |
- fixes bugs by patching the binaries | |
- posts her changes to Unix utilities to the net -- | |
and they work | |
- can tell what question you are about to ask, and answer it | |
- writes her own troff macro packages | |
- is on a first-name basis with Dennis, Bill, and Ken |
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