spoilerHopefully it's funny enough to offset that I'm reposting my own post.

A mastodon post from @rustynova.mastodon.social, saying: Due to multiple complaints about "Not following the Unix philosophy", the `alistral sex` command will be removed in the next version.   You will be able to keep it working by keeping the v0.6.9's executable and setting a custom cache database location to prevent conflict with the database version.   Sorry for the inconvenience. Stay tuned for a standalone version under the `alistsex` name.
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[–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

Writing an email and sending it are pretty different functions, it's doesn't looks like that because the sending part is just pressing a bottom and all the protocols and sever communication is done in the background hide from the user.

It's like asking the postal service to also write and package your mail and then open and read it for the recipient.

I personally like that philosophy and try to use it in my job, with functions that only do one job and programs that only do one job and then just chain them and make calls from each other. My users doesn't know it's like that and they doesn't notice any difference, but it's help me debugging or implementing new functionalities.

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