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burrito command-line tool

2021-01-24 01:40:43.185418+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

A fantastic throwback to the days when we thought that ordering food on the Internet would be scriptable... http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos from September 8, 1992 announces the burrito command-line tool:

There is a little Mexican grocery nearby that has an assembly-line burrito operation in back. You walk down the line with the person who is making your burrito, telling them exactly what you want on it. The problem is that the place is so good and such a good value that the lines get quite long at times. So La Costena (that's a tilde n) put in a fax machine and allows you to fax in your orders. Well, we've gone a quantum leap beyond that with the following.

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