Glue: The Dark Matter of Software

There we have ideas like executable choreographies (implementable by swarm communication) intended to be glue code at the integration level of the systems. Unfortunatly systems start small and dont need choreographies and when they become big is too late... The level of abstractions is also a bit high. But in general makes sense to break your systems in reusable bricks and glue code...

Shells have not dramatically altered pipe character implementations since Dennis Ritchie introduced | into Unix V4.

Most folk's use of the command line interface has changed so much since those days that |'s default "glue" still drops out information that many of today's hackers consider a common part of the contemporary Unix terminal experience, such as text color.