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Moreover when folks talk about doing only one thing and one thing well, they are referring to command line utilities and pipes. And pipes were an invention of D
by random314 5y ago
Moreover when folks talk about doing only one thing and one thing well, they are referring to command line utilities and pipes. And pipes were an invention of Doug mclroy, not Ritchie or Thompson.
And the unix command-pipe philosophy is realized much better as ordinary functions in a functional programming language.
- pjmlp 5y agoIndeed, the UNIX CLI is a poor man's experience compared with a Lisp REPL, Smalltalk transcript or Oberon commands session.