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>I think a good mini language bridges the gap between interactive commands and programming. find(1) is a bad mini language. Its arguments are in a legacy forma

by foul 3y ago

>I think a good mini language bridges the gap between interactive commands and programming. find(1) is a bad mini language. Its arguments are in a legacy format and its solution for composability is a hack, and an unstable one.

rektide 3y ago
And shell users already have a language they know & should be able to use to compose computing: the shell. Different programs introducing their own specific programmatic layers defeats the holistic small pieces, loosely coupled premise.