On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:19:37AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> It would also be sad to leave behind the Unix heritage of simple
> utilities that can pipe to each other to do useful things.
This is more than a heritage, this is a cornerstone of a useful
computing environment. I thought VMS was annoying because I had
to explicitly read and write temp files to 'pipe' programs
together. Then I found out how good I had it when I was condemned
to Windows NT.
No doubt that a feature-rich GUI has its place. But don't forget
the (hopefully) many of us that are irritated when we experience:
$ type sed
sed is /bin/sed
instead of
$ type sed
/bin/sed
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Programs don't create data. People create data.
Every program is a filter.
-- Mark Gancarz, 'The Unix Philosophy'
