Editing Unix philosophy (section)

=== Do One Thing and Do It Well ===

As stated by McIlroy, and generally accepted throughout the Unix community, Unix programs have always been expected to follow the concept of DOTADIW, or "Do One Thing And Do It Well." There are limited sources for the acronym DOTADIW on the Internet, but it is discussed at length during the development and packaging of new operating systems, especially in the Linux community.

[[Patrick Volkerding]], the project lead of [[Slackware Linux]], invoked this design principle in a criticism of the [[systemd]] architecture, stating that, "attempting to control services, sockets, devices, mounts, etc., all within one [[Daemon (computing)|daemon]] flies in the face of the Unix concept of doing one thing and doing it well."<ref name="volkerding-2012">{{cite web| url=http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/interviews-28/interview-with-patrick-volkerding-of-slackware-949029/| title=Interview with Patrick Volkerding of Slackware| website=linuxquestions.org | date=2012-06-07| access-date=2015-10-24}}</ref>