I was a fan of object oriented programming (and over-engineering for the sake of it) until I came to know the McIlroy pipe for computing a histogram. It was so

I was a fan of object oriented programming (and over-engineering for the sake of it) until I came to know the McIlroy pipe for computing a histogram. It was so terse and beautiful that it flipped my world upside down. Since then, I have been hooked onto the unix philosophy. See here an enlightening read about this programming style: https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/15.html https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/01/15.html