On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:33 PM G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmai

> The groff program allows to control the whole groff system by command
> line options. This is a great simplification in comparison to the
> classical case (which uses pipes only).

What strikes _me_ about the above is the awful Denglish in it. I fixed
this back in 2017 and the correction shipped as part of groff 1.22.4 in
December 2018.

I like the easy composability of pipes, but I don't mind some options.

I don't like the huge, all-purpose applications called web browsers nearly as much. They strike me as Very un-unixy. But much can be justified by not having to get users to download a client application, and not having to get sysadmins to punch a hole through their firewalls.

I'd say it's neither, and reflects (1) the limitations of the Unix
filter model, or at least the linear topology of Unix pipelines[1]

I don't think they have to be linear:
http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ (see the unfortunately-named "pee" utility)

and:
https://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/mtee.html

Full disclosure: I wrote mtee.