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On Du, 16 feb 20, 03:36:44, ghe wrote:
> 
> Complexity of the software is for us programmers to deal with. Making 
> the programs useful for a user can be one of the problems in our 
> writing and design. That, I think, is what they meant by "One program 
> doing the job well" -- users have a collection of reasonably 
> straightforward and simple tools to do things, and the tools work. The 
> screwdrivers and cork screws and knife blades can be piped together, 
> you know. Or called in a script.

To find out how many items I have in my mpd playlist I would run 
something like 'mpc playlist | wc -l'. In order to rearrange the 
playlist I would rather use a GUI client so I can just drag and drop 
songs around.

Sure it's possible to do either task with the other tool (TIMTOWTDI), 
it's just that one is more efficient than the other for the specific 
user, situation and / or environment (e.g. I might prefer a TUI 
interface if I don't have a mouse connected).

None of the approaches will be able to solve all use cases and the line 
between loose | tight integration is very much personal opinion.

Just use whatever works for you.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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