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The difference is that all the tools you just used were created by Microsoft. It's essentially a curated experience. From that angle, it's a fucking mess. If Of
by delusional 5y ago
The difference is that all the tools you just used were created by Microsoft. It's essentially a curated experience. From that angle, it's a fucking mess. If Office didn't support PDFs and was created by a 3rd party. The integration would be really cool. As it stands, powerpoint should just have a bulk convert feature instead of scripting language hooks.
The reason bash is cool is because i can open it up, and run all these different programs written by different people, in different languages, for different use cases, and they all just work. It's the diversity of the ecosystem that makes the interoperability so cool. If it was all made by a single company, I'd say the usability is a fucking mess.
- netizen-936824 5y agoSomeone else in another thread here that PS shines when you use the object models full-in. Personally I think bash shines in the opposite way as everything is a string and everything is a file, which as you mention, allows everything to work together
- kaba0 5y agoThere is nothing inherent in PS’s model to disallow some third-party app from working. Also, having to create per-usecase bug-prone parsing for everything is pretty terrible. It is okay for copying a file or whatnot, but it is definitely not okay for more complex tasks. And indeed, for those you would just use a single-purpose tool, like pandoc for my given example.