Re: [dev] Simple made Easy (Rich Hickey at StrangeLoop)

From: Patrick Haller <201009-suckless_AT_haller.ws>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:28:58 +0800

On 2011-10-22 00:08, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
On 21/10/2011, Pierre Chapuis <catwell_AT_archlinux.us> wrote:
> > http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
> Thanks, I enjoyed watching this.

"Let's all write parsers."

Hickey kicks unix because although pipes = composability, output and
input = free-form text. We combined data exchange with user interface,
and user interface usually won that fight.

Say data exchange won; would it help us to rewrite our programs to
output JSON and our shells to pretty-print* JSON?


Patrick

[*] The cynic points out that people would then spend time customizing
their pretty-printers.
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