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"you should actively seek ways to shift complexity from code to data." but also somehow we're supposed to write everything to read write flat text... Thanks U

"you should actively seek ways to shift complexity from code to data." but also somehow we're supposed to write everything to read write flat text... Thanks UNIX!

pphysch 2y ago
"flat text" meaning ASCII/UTF encoded streams of bits/bytes... It's all 0s and 1s under the hood, and encodings make that much nicer to deal with without excessive abstraction. Give me UNIX everything-is-a-file / byte-stream paradigm over PowerShell's complicated object ontology.