Simpletoon

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   by Simpletoon 14y ago

   Yes, it sounds like he was surprised. That's why he wrote "as expected...".
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   by Simpletoon 14y ago

   It all starts as a stream. That is the "universal format". sed was designed to edit streams. A stream can be transformed via stream editing into any text format, for any downstream consumer. It's line based. That's the only limitation.
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   by Simpletoon 14y ago

   I only need three programs to deal with anti-ASCII, pro-complexity JSON, XML, etc. crowd: tr, sed and lex. All the effort these Javascripters expend putting data JSON just gets undone by my custom UNIX-style filters; then I can actually wor
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   by Simpletoon 14y ago

   Doubtful. Yahoo rewrote Viaweb in C or C++, didn't they? There's a reason why so many programmers still use CGI scripts. And why they depend on a host of scripting languages that rely on external libraries written by others. Perhaps it'
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   by Simpletoon 14y ago

   Paul Graham: "$50m companies innovate. Mine did. We basically invented the web app. We were doing complex stuff in LISP when everyone else was doing CGI scripts. And, quite frankly, $50m is no small thing. " Of course, no one uses CGI now.