You might be right that if it were easy to couple tools from different
levels of abstraction, it wouldn't be such a big win; but the
antecedent in this implication is false, so nothing can be concluded
about the truth of the consequent.
Too true. That's an area in which
we seem to have
Kaushik Sridharan writes:
The modern world progresses by an increase in the things that are
successfully done ineptly.
How old is this idea?
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by
eminent people when they are making speeches, that
Dave Long writes:
To my tastes, Lisply written Fortran is no better than Fortranly
written Lisp)
Lispy Fortran is probably good if you have to write an optimizing
compiler or a regular expression engine in Fortran, and Fortranny Lisp
is probably good if you're writing an FFT engine. Lisp is
Dave Long writes:
a propagation delay averaging about half a second ...
which is tail(1)'s fault; if one really cared, and had a usleep(1),
another sh read loop would handle output w/o the noticable delay.
tail has a -s option which could benefit from accepting floating-point
numbers,
