[CentralOH] Critiques Requested: UNIX Philosophy

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On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 14:54:49 -0500, Joshua Kramer <joskra42.list at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is based on npyscreen (a ncurses UI library)...

Consider following the unix philosophy[1], including:

1. Make each program do one thing well.

   Instead of one big program,
   have multiple smaller programs,

2. Write programs to handle text streams,
   because that is a universal interface.

   This makes it easy to use your little programs
   above with other programs and
   unix friends such as grep, sed, and awk.

3. Avoid captive user interfaces.

   (So make the ncurses interface a separate program.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy