On Nov 30, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Scott Reynen wrote:
Ryan King wrote:
You see, one of the beauties of The Unix Way, is that, just like
microformats, you can use the same output for both humans and
machines. For example, `ls .` can be read by a human or piped into
something else with `ls . | foo`. No need for two separate
formats. (note to self: need to write blog post comparing µF's to
The Unix Way.)
In addition to removing repetition, using a more human-readable
format for machine-only communication greatly simplifies
debugging. That's why JavaScript is far more popular than assembly
language.
And developing in general. For example, I write lots of shell scripts
that end up looking something like:
cat *.log | cut -f2 | grep foo | perl -e "while(<>){print doSomething
($_);}" | sort | uniq -c
Of course, to create that, I do it one step at a time and inspect the
output (often using head or tail instead of cat).
Never underestimate the usefulness of human-readable data.
-ryan
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