On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>> My view is to stick with the UNIX philosophy: a set of simple tools which do
>> just what they're intended to, and then are put together with pipes (jack)
>> when needed.
>
> UNIX philosophy barely works for GUI applications. Admit it :)
This is true... even on the command line. As powerful as
grep/awk/sed/cat/split/bash are... they're being replaced by python and
perl... where the interaction between the different components is more
well defined and stable across different platforms.
I used to get monster headaches working with little command line goodies
like this:
N=filename ; grep -E "^ [\.0-9]{1,8}" ${N}.txt \
| sed 's/^ //' \
| sed 's/ */|/' \
| sed 's/ */|/' \
| sed 's/ */|/' \
| sed 's/ /\^/' \
| sed 's/\^[0-9].............../|/' \
| sed 's/\"/IN/g' \
| sed 's/^/\"/' \
| sed 's/|/\",\"/g' \
| sed 's/$/\"/' \
> ${N}.csv
Nicely modular and powerful. Powerful headaches, too. These days, I do
it in Python, get it done quicker, and my family likes me again. :-)
so, like Alexandre is saying... the future of the Unix-style modularity is
to have a modular back-end (libraries, plug-ins, modules, etc) but an
integrated front-end.
-gabriel
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