13 Jan
2020
13 Jan
'20
2:34 a.m.
Kevin Bowling writes:
This is kind of illustrative of the '60s acid
trip that perpetuates in
programming "Everything's a string maaaaan". The output is seen as
truth because the representation is for some reason too hard to get at
or too hard to cascade through the system.
There's a total comedy of work going on in the unix way of a wc
pipeline versus calling a length function on a list. Nonetheless, the
unix pipeline was and is often magnitude easier for a single user to
get at. This kind of thing is amusing and endearing to me about our
profession in modern day.
Regards,
Kevin
Can you please elaborate? I read your post, and while I can see that it
contains English words I can't make any sense out of what you said.
Thanks,
Jon