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I think the best part about using Unix tools is it forces you to break down the problem into tiny steps. You can see feedback every step of the way by removing
by nickjj 8y ago
I think the best part about using Unix tools is it forces you to break down the problem into tiny steps.
You can see feedback every step of the way by removing and adding back new piped commands so you're never really dealing with more than 1 operation at a time which makes debugging and making progress a lot easier than trying to fit everything together at once.
- mercer 8y agoIt's basically functional programming. I find that my approach to writing code is very similar to how I work with the shell. The main difference, I guess, is that the command 'units' are slightly bigger, in the form of functions, but the way I iterate my solution to a problem is basically the same.