Trying to see the big picture

Posted May 9, 2012 18:09 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Trying to see the big picture by dgm
Parent article: The plumbing layer as the new kernel

You're comparing apples to oranges. Nobody said Perl made a better command line environment. How often do you use ls, grep, sort, etc to serve web pages?

Point is, the Unix Philosophy clan tends to dismiss tightly integrated things as bad designs. It's clear the world has room for both.