The UNIX way

What's so cool about the UNIX philosophy? What would a heavy UNIX philosophy operating system look like? What is the most heavy UNIX philosophy operating system out there at the moment, besides UNIX itself?

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The question then becomes, why hasn't someone replaced GNU ls with some combination of ancient Unix ls and a shell script. If you can answer that, you understand why `The UNIX Philosophy'' isn't the solution to every problem.