There isn't a single piece of GNU project software that is actually, objectively good. It's usually bloated, spec-deviant or bloody useless.
Examples: coreutils, autoconf
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Anonymous2011-12-13 20:11
I love ultra-``UNIX philosophy'' types. I knew a guy who would kill processes by piping ps through grep through awk through kill or whatever. He would always mess it up. Meanwhile I'd always use pkill or killall and he'd have an aneurysm about how it wasn't adhering to the ``UNIX philosophy'' and that I should learn to do it ``properly''.
I never understand why idiots make things harder for themselves.