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Re:The Dawn of a New Command Line Interface (2017) by tenebrisalietum on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @06:09PM (#21653097)
> Confusion between user-input and data – programs can’t reliably distinguish between interactive (keyboard) input, pasted/”IPC” input and other forms of data entry.

No! This is a feature. The actual core data-processing part of a program should not care where its data comes from. There needs to be separation between engine and interface, and different interfaces are needed for different types of input scenarios.

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