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.
Received on Sat Oct 22 2011 - 03:28:58 CEST