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Re:Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snap... by nanomonkey on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @07:34PM (#23635082)
I may be mistaken, but I assumed that they meant that no parsing needed to be done between components, and that they just stream together, which is not really the case. You often have to use sed and awk (eleborate parsers) between different components to get the necessary portions of data from one component into the other...they don't just fit together like legos.
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Re:Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snap... by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @09:05PM (#23635717)
Yeah but sed and awk are amazing “sharp tools” for this sort of task: they have a learning curve, but 100 characters of awk can do some amazing stuff.
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