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A Complete Program

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Re: A Complete Program

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> Some might see the expansion of a single compound command into a nearly 200-line script as a sign of everything wrong with modern software development. And, on one hand, that’s a fair point. But, on the other, the result is pretty nice.

I wouldn't call it "everything wrong with modern software development", but I do think that some of the spirit of the Unix philosophy, with small, simple tools that can be composed in gestalt to get something useful, is lost with this solution.

Re: A Complete Program

#3

> Some might see the expansion of a single compound command into a nearly 200-line script as a sign of everything wrong with modern software development. And, on one hand, that’s a fair point. But, on the other, the result is pretty nice. I wouldn't call it "everything wrong with modern software development", but I do think that some of the spirit of the Unix philosophy, with small, simple tools that can be composed…

Not to mention that this is a solved problem with the "at" and friends commands.