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marcosdumay on June 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Unix Philosophy

For a while, Linux mostly had the philosophy that your software should come with a text interface, optionally a GUI, and a C library. That library part is for solving the messes created by tangled text interfaces.

But nowadays lots of things only come for the GUI.

mjevans on June 25, 2015 [–]

A lot of those are actually just task specific business logic style applications in scripting languages (often python, sometimes perl, etc).

In this case the 'library' is often the base programming language it's self, as the shipped parts are entirely glue and configuration.

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