12 Jan
2020
12 Jan
'20
9:47 p.m.
Bakul Shah writes:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:44:30 -0800 Jon Steinhart
<jon(a)fourwinds.com> wrote:
Ah. So lines IS the structure that a lot of people want. As I just
said in a post, the JSON tools are a good example of communicating
structured data although I would have done them differently.
Jon
I wasn't being snarky. You said
"The output is seen as truth because the representation is for some
reason too hard to get at or too hard to cascade through the system."
I honestly have no idea what that means.
Likewise,
"There's a total comedy of work going on in the unix way of
a wc pipeline versus calling a length function on a list."
I just don't know what you mean.
May be this is not what Kevin meant but the way I interpreted
his message: smushing everything down to strings for output as
in unix pipelines loses any underlying structure which then
may have to be rediscovered by the next program in the
pipeline by parsing. This is slower, indirect and errorprone.
If one can communicate a structured representation of data between
components that would be better.