I recently contributed an awk filter for doing text transformation. I think it was some kind of code for converting POSIX attributes to LDIF or something like t

I recently contributed an awk filter for doing text transformation. I think it was some kind of code for converting POSIX attributes to LDIF or something like that. I was kind of surprised when one of the replies that I received was a request to re-implement it as a Python API. They didn't seem interested in using piplelines as a way to glue utilities together into something bigger. I don't have anything against Python, I just like the idea of being able to integrate wildly different implementations (C, perl, awk, sed, m4, Perl, Python, etc...) to solve problems. It's a kind of component based approach that the Unix/Linux/BSD shell makes really easy.