Being able to directly pass s-expressions ... would be nicer than putting an alphabet soup of parameters on one program to have it output text in just the right way for the next program to re-parse it with another alphabet soup of parameters.
I'm not saying that this is the one true way. I'm just agreeing with the article that there is a lot of room for improvement in how things get piped and config-ed in *nix.
Being able to directly pass s-expressions ... would be nicer than putting an alphabet soup of parameters on one program to have it output text in just the right way for the next program to re-parse it with another alphabet soup of parameters.
I'm not saying that this is the one true way. I'm just agreeing with the article that there is a lot of room for improvement in how things get piped and config-ed in *nix.