nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: on Nostr: the Unix philosophy itself is kind of dated in the sense that it was primarily a ...

the Unix philosophy itself is kind of dated in the sense that it was primarily a model for the spit and elbow grease tools era for bell labs

>Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program.

This obviously can't be the case for *every* program, I can't pipe irssi through another thing to filter output and such. GUI programs are way out of the question here even, on windows they fork off and never speak to the command line again.