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On 5/20/14, 11:17 PM, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
> Den 21/05/2014 kl. 06.20 skrev Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>:
>
>> In all seriousness though, the real target is people writing higher level languages (than shell) on top of FreeBSD.  Perhaps python or ruby spawning a utility and then that utility making the output easy to read.
> If that's the use case, than I'm fine with this. I often find I need to combine Python and shell output (working with dates in shell is horrible, for example), and formalized output would simplify some scripts considerably.
Yes exactly.  I've given some preliminary talks and devops people eyes 
light up with excitement.

thank you,
-Alfred