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Re:The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten by db48x on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @08:37PM (#31091330)
Ok, I guess you’re thinking of your shell where you can “add a command” by dropping a shell script anywhere on the disk? Or your text editor, where you can add commands by editing some config file? I guess that’s fair. Note however that each of these programs has bent over backwards to enable easy extensibility. The average program does not. This is more like adding a command to sed or grep, which have no extensibility (aside from editing their source code).
Re:The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten by akhmatova on Friday April 22, 2022 @09:16AM (#31121197)
The average program does not.

Right -- the average system does not. But that doesn't mean that every system does not. That's all I'm saying.