The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

> with plain text formats I can use the *same* collection of tools for everything, and every new thing i learn about sh or sed or grep or awk or perl or whatever is automatically useful in hundreds of other contexts, not just the context in which i originally learnt it.
I found that in most cases, it is easier to learn a new tool that is specialized for the job at hand than to try to get "standard unix" tools to do what you want, especially if you want to do it in a robust and maintainable way. For example, people keep asking again and again how to handle some XML format with things like sed or awk, which is just a bad idea given the existence of specialized tools like xmlstarlet.