[TUHS] Tech Sq elevator (Was: screen editors)

[Jon Steinhart]

Kevin Bowling writes:
> This is kind of illustrative of the '60s acid trip that perpetuates in
> programming "Everything's a string maaaaan".  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.
>
> 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.  Nonetheless, the
> unix pipeline was and is often magnitude easier for a single user to
> get at.  This kind of thing is amusing and endearing to me about our
> profession in modern day.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin

Can you please elaborate?  I read your post, and while I can see that it
contains English words I can't make any sense out of what you said.

Thanks,
	Jon