I got -4 just for stating the same opinion, and found out your comment at the end of this page.
Since everything is really text here, the typical UNIX way of doing things seems to be much more practical in dealing text transformations here. I second your `Bash' opinion. I could imagine a package populate your PATH as
PATH=DataFormat:EncryptionEncoding:PublicKey:…
and simply put nice little binaries, each of which does one thing and one thing only, and you can use them like,
cat FILE | toBase64 | entropy
A nice interface of such thing in Haskell or APL would really shine. I bet GCHQ must have a much nicer internal library (which runs at a fraction of their machines' peak FLOPS) in one of their favorite languages that they can script and launch multiple tries by pushing a few buttons on their keyboard. And of course they are not sharing that.
Alas, point-and-click lovers seem to be the majority here on HN.
Since everything is really text here, the typical UNIX way of doing things seems to be much more practical in dealing text transformations here. I second your `Bash' opinion. I could imagine a package populate your PATH as
and simply put nice little binaries, each of which does one thing and one thing only, and you can use them like, A nice interface of such thing in Haskell or APL would really shine. I bet GCHQ must have a much nicer internal library (which runs at a fraction of their machines' peak FLOPS) in one of their favorite languages that they can script and launch multiple tries by pushing a few buttons on their keyboard. And of course they are not sharing that.Alas, point-and-click lovers seem to be the majority here on HN.