[kayodelycaon]

Making things compatible without a common standard also has a cost. If everything is text optimized for appearance in a terminal, then how do you parse out the data to be used by a script?

The unix solution is offloading the complexity on the script, which makes all scripts more difficult to write.

[Kinrany]

The solution is to have more common standards, make standards more accessible, and use existing standards whenever possible.

[webmaven]

> The solution is to have more common standards, make standards more accessible, and use existing standards whenever possible.

"The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. "

[Kinrany]

We don't need more interchangeable standards. We need standards for different things.

The point in having standards is not to have the one ultimate standard that everyone uses, but to have a documented way to interoperate at all without interrogating the author or reverse-engineering.