Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 20:18:28 -0000 (UTC)
usuario <anthk@disroot.org> boring babbled:

El Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:04:24 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro escribió:
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:04:54 -0000 (UTC), Bozo User wrote:
 

Perl is more awk+sed+sh in a single language. Basically the killer of
the Unix philophy in late 90's/early 00's, and for the good.

 
That’s what Rob Pike said
<https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-pike-

responds>:

 
    Q: “Given the nature of current operating systems and applications,
    do you think the idea of "one tool doing one job well" has been
    abandoned?”
    A: “Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by
    Perl.”
 
But I’m not sure I agree. Those small, specialized tools always required
large, monolithic pieces under them to operate: the shell itself for
shell scripts, the X server for GUI apps, the kernel itself for
everything. So while the coming of Perl has changed some things,
it has not made a difference to the modularity of the Unix way.

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The shell could be changed as just a command launcher with no
conditionals, while perl doing all the hard work.
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On X11/X.org, X11 was never very "Unix like" by itself.

An X server is about as minimal as you can have a graphics system
and still make it usable. I don't see how it could have been
subdivided any further and still work.