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Re:Show HN: Convert a number to an approximated text expression by benibela on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:40AM (#22987903)
That is a frustrating aspect of open-source

In the old days you would have a binary shell tool or a dll, and then you could call it from any language. It did not matter in which language the tool was written in.

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Re:Show HN: Convert a number to an approximated text expression by oalae5niMiel7qu on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:22AM (#22996065)
It has nothing to do with open-source. This project is written in Java (basically), which is proprietary.

It has everything to do with programming languages that don't compile down to linker symbols that can be called with the C calling convention, and the utter failure of Unix philosophy when it comes to shell tools.

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