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+title: Integrated tools
+date: 2014-11-27 21:30:21
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+Continuing that thought, I feel that the tools we use are very much
+disconnected from each other.  Of course that is the basic tennet, tools which
+do one thing well.  However, tools serve a specific purpose, which in itself
+can be characterised as providing a specific service.  It seems strange that
+basically the only widely applicable way to connect very different tools is the
+shell, respectively calling out to other programs.
+
+I would argue that using some another paradigms could rather help to make the
+interplay between services in this sense much easier.  For example, if we were
+to use not only a message bus, line in Plan9, but also a shared blackboard-like
+database to exchange messages in a common format, then having different daemons
+react on state changes would be much easier.
+
+Of course, this would already be possible if the one point, a common exchange
+format, was satisfied.  In that case, using file system notifications together
+with files, pipes, fifos etc. would probably be enough to have largely the same
+system, but based on the file system abstraction.