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If we're looking for good role models of composability, UNIX is not the place to be looking.
by davexunit 9y ago
If we're looking for good role models of composability, UNIX is not the place to be looking.
- Ixiaus 9y agoI think there may be better role models but I have a hard time finding ones that are jargon-free (to a degree, "pipes" and other terms are jargon but generally accessible to people who work with Linux), approachable, and functional for people that do not have the mental model.
- wnoise 9y agoIt's not great -- but it is a good example because nearly everything else in wide use is far worse.
- barrkel 9y agoUnix has produced a bunch of composable tools that have stood the test of time - find, grep, sort, uniq, wc, sed, awk etc. - decades of reusability and composability, things I reuse and compose to this day. I can't honestly say that about any other computing tool I use.