Found out today that "unix" was a pun on "eunuchs", and it's exactly the kind of bullshit I'm DONE with in tech.
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I can see people administrators wanting to throw together a couple of scripts with data piped as text between different open-source utilities. But as one of the contributors of BSD said: "New generation of programmers thinks in APIs" and that sums up the frustration very well.
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Having to rely on thousands of unrelated programs talking in strings (which are not formatted in any standard way) and are developed by myriads of different developers, some of which aren't even developing anymore makes the whole ecosystem feel very dated.
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