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Unless I misunderstood the intent, this sounds like a rephrasing of the Unix philosophy. Evidently the approach works for certain types of problems and up to a
by Etheryte 4y ago
Unless I misunderstood the intent, this sounds like a rephrasing of the Unix philosophy. Evidently the approach works for certain types of problems and up to a point, but we've all seen a shell script hell of one sort or another in our lifetime. I don't see this rephrasing addressing that problem. At some point you are going to need more complex things than a composition of a few simple programs, and that's where the real difficulty lies.
- drakerossman 4y agoIt is a nice comparison, but I would honestly say, that I never had Unix in mind in regards to this approach. And I would say, it again lacks the "catch" I've mentioned in the article: Unix philosophy implies composability, while here you treat your snippets as etudes, isolated etudes, which may or may not compose well, while always keeping in mind, that you are doing all that to eventually tackle a bigger problem.