I've been thinking recently about how learning PowerShell and Elixir have had an influence on my day job working with C# and was reminded of two quotes from the early Unix days that seem appropriate.

More Unix Philosophy

This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

— Doug McIlroy, Inventor of the Unix Pipe