Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Concerning use of 'cat' - of course it is never necessary to use it for 
> one file but it produces much more readable code in many situations, 
> especially if the program used requires the stuff from stdin (and you 
> would have to use 'program < mesh2.pov').

  Whether

cat file | program options

  is more readable than

program options file

  is a question of taste. The upper version can be very confusing to
people who don't know what cat does, what a | does and why the program
doesn't seem to be taking any file at all, while the second one seems
more clear.
  Besides, the latter is easier to write.

  Just a question: Why teach newbies wrong habits from the start? Why not
teach them good habits to begin with?

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