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Agree, I was surprised that the cURL feature was considered as it seems to go against the "Do One Thing" and composability points of the UNIX philosophy.
by matja 5y ago
Agree, I was surprised that the cURL feature was considered as it seems to go against the "Do One Thing" and composability points of the UNIX philosophy.
- nerdponx 5y agoCurl does like 100 "things" already by that standard. The Unix philosophy doesn't have to be reductionist. Curl does do one thing: make network requests. This feature is making it easier to make network requests, i.e. it makes it better at doing the one thing that it does.
- oblio 5y agocurl? Do one thing? In the same sentence? curl looks like it has hundreds of flags. https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/ https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/