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To me all (complex) one liners are bad : they're hard to read and they don't manage errors.

I'd rather go through 5 lines of simple statements than try to decipher a "clever" one liner.

From the fine article : > Open a GUI, read web page, sent it as email

You really want to do that in one line ?




sending someone a link via email is a relatively common task.

why would it be undesirable to write short code that can do that?


Not undesirable, just odd to make a big deal about it. Like making a big deal about Unix pipes. Yeah, when they were invented, okay. Nowadays ... old hack.




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