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		gcr on May 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cronic - A cure for Cron's chronic email problem I think it's an OSX-ism. Most OSX devs I've seen treat their command-line utilities like their GUI utilities, with nice looking albeit chatty output. These utilities then get released into the Linux world, where they often work without any modification.

wisty on May 25, 2012 [–]

Or it's just younger devs, who like to see something when they run their program.

gcr on May 26, 2012 | [–]

Yes, exactly this. I know I'm guilty of wanting to see something cool happen. :)

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