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Your terminal is not a terminal: An Introduction to Streams

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I always try to build less software. Less software means you have to spend less time updating it, less time fixing it, and less time thinking about it. The only thing better than “less software” is no software at all. Streams help us writing less software because they allow programs to communicate with each other. If programs cannot communicate they must have too many features to satisfy their user’s needs, therefore creating more software. By enabling inter-process communication, streams encourage software to be smaller and sometimes can even prevent software from being written. Learning about streams helps you understand a bit better how UNIX systems work and keep your development environment simple. Streams are just that: streams. In the same way that a river has a stream of water, programs have streams of data. Moreover, just like you can use steel pipes to carry water from one place to another, you can use UNIX pipes to carry data from one program to another. This was the very ana

I love streams because I don't like software . I always try to build less software. Less software means you have to spend less time updating it, less time fixing it, and less time thinking about it. The only thing better than "less software" is no software at all. Streams help us writing less software because they allow programs to communicate with each other . If programs cannot communicate they must have too many features to satisfy their user's needs, therefore creating more software. By enabling inter-process communication, streams encourage software to be smaller and sometimes can even pr

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