7 Sep
2022
7 Sep
'22
6:53 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 5, 2022, at 6:48 PM, steve jenkin wrote:
While the Unix “Software Tools” approach - mediated by
the STDOUT /
STDIN interface, not API’s - was new & radical, and for many classes of
problems, provided a definitive solution,
I’d not include it in a list of “Open Source” features.
I am very curious to hear more about the implications and practical benefits of this from
folks that have thoroughly explored it. In my experience I’ve mainly used APIs, and I’m
having trouble imagining the other approach other than for text-processing.
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