On 2011-10-22 00:08, Connor Lane Smith wrote: On 21/10/2011, Pierre Chapuis <catw...@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.
