From: async@illuminati.io.com (Felix Sebastian Gallo)
Date: 11 Jan 1994 14:28:22 -0600

                ....  Unix, although it lends itself to enormous
monolithic processor-chowing whores like emacs, c++, and perl,
does not require, and should not require, their use.  The basic
Unix toolkit as shipped on the tape is remarkably expressive, and
is often the only thing needed for a given task.

If you learn the basic tools (including ed, sed, lex, yacc, awk,
cat, dd, rm, ls, mv, sh, cp, grep), then you are one with the Tao
of Unix, and you will pass through all barriers, and the wheedlings
and mewlings of your users will be as the first droplets of summer
rain on the broad shoulders of a toadstool to you.  Your power will
be spoken of across the land, and you shall not need to lap at the
rotten trough of object orientation nor the feedback of featurism.
Should you need to ride the wild stallions of perl or emacs, you
will be able to do so with a calm, confident rein rather than with
the inchoate, senseless spirit of abandon.

And many will say unto you, "you need emacs," or "it is important
that you install perl upon thy system," and your laughter will
roll as thunder, and the weak and craven will be smitten down to
cower in the rank puddles of their own ignorance.  For your hands
will fly over the keyset, yea, even when you have only a bootable
emergency disk, and with cpio and dd you will have the lever to
move the world.