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foul on June 21, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespace...

>I think a good mini language bridges the gap between interactive commands and programming.

find(1) is a bad mini language. Its arguments are in a legacy format and its solution for composability is a hack, and an unstable one.

rektide on June 21, 2023 [–]

And shell users already have a language they know & should be able to use to compose computing: the shell.

Different programs introducing their own specific programmatic layers defeats the holistic small pieces, loosely coupled premise.

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