This article was made in response to The internet was designed with a narrow waist, discussed 361 days ago [1]. I posted this article now because I saw a compe

This article was made in response to The internet was designed with a narrow waist, discussed 361 days ago [1]. I posted this article now because I saw a compelling comment on yesterday's thread Time to get the Posix elephant off our necks?. An excerpt: --- The Unix Philosophy, as stated by Peter Salus [1] is: 1. Write programs that do one thing and do it well 2. Write programs that work together 3. Write programs to handle text streams because text is a universal interface. The problem is that, in practice, you can only pick two of those. ... If you want programs that do one thing and do it well, and programs that work together, then you have to abandon "plain text", and enforce some kind of common data format --- [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30483914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30483914 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34904337#34907237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34904337#34907237