John Lindal’s Blog

Humans vs Computers

Kudos to the Subversion team for building a command line client that produces output readable by both humans and programs!

This is not a common feature. gdb, which cries out for a graphical interface, doesn’t do it, despite the fact that all the output that it generates is highly structured. Its output is nearly impossible to parse. I should know, since I helped build Code Medic. RedHat chose to graft on an entire, new interface (MI2) when they decided to build a GUI for gdb.