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Touche on Oct 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft, I Forgive You

> Piping objects is better than parsing text.

One interface (text) is better than N interfaces, so no, piping objects is worse, because non .NET languages cannot participate in its API.

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