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A program calling command-line tools is the moral equivalent of web scraping.

I gave this talk at LPC 2012. It promotes the idea that programs layered on top of human-centric interfaces is a bad idea.

http://groveronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/all-plumbing-needs-an-api.pdf

The timing of this post with the announcement of the most recent bash vulnerability is not entirely coincidental.