Wave fits the Unix philosophy more than those small, well-written programs that do one job do. The unix philosophy isn't about single purpose programs vs. all-e

Wave fits the Unix philosophy more than those small, well-written programs that do one job do. The unix philosophy isn't about single purpose programs vs. all-encompassing beasts, it's about interoperability. In unix, this meant line oriented text files, and lots of programs that can deal with that. Consider 'ls': it prints in single column format when the output is not a tty, so that you can easily consume the output elsewhere. Wave is defining a new set of interoperability standards for everything like a conversation.