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		accrual 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programmers and software developers lost the plot ... > Why isn’t there a command line utility called “whatisthis” with a standard protocol that allows tools to give a brief description of what they are? Cheekily, man?

dwaltrip 15 days ago [–]

Hah good point. Maybe v1 just pulls the first few lines from man.

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