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> The Unix philosophy was like Lego: small parts that do simple things that can be put together in combinations to build greater things. If you can build it from the basic blocks, it's not a basic block.

And the normal programmer's logic is: "if it's not already integrated in the OS then I am not going to use it". So stream files it is, forever.

I think history has proven this. People are very risk-averse even if the risk is quite minor (example: using sqlite3 instead of the file system).




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