I'll be contrarian and throw my opinion on top of the pile, why not. I've never found most of the arguments about the UNIX philosophy or plaintext super compel

I'll be contrarian and throw my opinion on top of the pile, why not. I've never found most of the arguments about the UNIX philosophy or plaintext super compelling. Some people love to wax poetic about "composing together small programs" and "being able to use one toolset to accomplish many things." In my experience this works really great for systems administration (the activity the paradigm was designed around - big surprise) but not very well for other things. Sometimes I want to take a picture. Sometimes I want to query a sqlite database. Sometimes I want Powershell objects. Life is not systems administration, and neither is computing. Don't get me wrong, I have emacs open all day every day at work. But when I hear people talk about using plaintext for everything, I think about Bret Victor's rant about the inhumanity of keyboards and screens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg