UNIX may have been about small commands (&quot;cat -v&quot;, anybody?), but its most important property is COMPOSABILITY. You could use small programs to build larger programs, allowing you to do things by gluing together code that you would previously have to write new programs to do. It made this very easy, and you could also do it from within C, so it wasn&#x27;t an either&#x2F;or situation. This is something your namesake system could have learned to do. The Right Thing isn&#x27;t always the right thing.