> Except that the philosophy is beautiful and extremely useful due to composability The philosophy is beautiful on the surface, which is exactly how far beauty

> Except that the philosophy is beautiful and extremely useful due to composability The philosophy is beautiful on the surface, which is exactly how far beauty extends. Write some load-bearing software using a litany of software all connected by pipes throwing untyped text streams around to various handles. If you do this, and you do not experience problems due to composability, one of the following is true: 1) you aren't doing real work, 2) your software exists in an environment which never changes, which is very rare for most people (meaning that you have fixed your environment enough to wallpaper over problems with composability.) statically compiled stuff and strongly typed data is the only way to longevity that is worth the time you need to put in to a system that must work.