It all starts as a stream. That is the "universal format". sed was designed to edit streams. A stream can be transformed via stream editing into any text format, for any downstream consumer. It's line based. That's the…
I only need three programs to deal with anti-ASCII, pro-complexity JSON, XML, etc. crowd: tr, sed and lex. All the effort these Javascripters expend putting data JSON just gets undone by my custom UNIX-style filters;…
Paul Graham: "$50m companies innovate. Mine did. We basically invented the web app. We were doing complex stuff in LISP when everyone else was doing CGI scripts. And, quite frankly, $50m is no small thing. " Of course,…
It all starts as a stream. That is the "universal format". sed was designed to edit streams. A stream can be transformed via stream editing into any text format, for any downstream consumer. It's line based. That's the…
I only need three programs to deal with anti-ASCII, pro-complexity JSON, XML, etc. crowd: tr, sed and lex. All the effort these Javascripters expend putting data JSON just gets undone by my custom UNIX-style filters;…
Paul Graham: "$50m companies innovate. Mine did. We basically invented the web app. We were doing complex stuff in LISP when everyone else was doing CGI scripts. And, quite frankly, $50m is no small thing. " Of course,…