I read an article on lwn.net, trying to find it now, titled "What is
UNIX". I can't find it now, will post the URL when I see it.
What I'd forgotten about was the notion that "everything is a file".
That made building complex operations out of simple applications in
scripting languages possible.
I loved the notion of running a tar command through gzip and redirecting
the output to /dev/tape. So simple, so abstract.
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