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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] dataflow programming from shell interpreter
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:15:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5050b89d9c59adfd0f78ae8d2809f5bd@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c563b2f7-92ac-463a-864c-267721ddb30a@k35g2000yqb.googlegroups.co>

On Mon Jan 18 06:08:05 EST 2010, climber.tim@gmail.com wrote:
> Is this possible for UNIX philosophy to develop further? Let's say,
> XML-coded trees or graphs instead of one-line strings in stdin/
> stdout.Or LISP S-expressions. New set of utilities for filtering such
> streams, grep for XML trees, etc. Building environment for dataflow
> programming from shell interpreter.
> Any interesting papers exist on this topic?

not on xml per se.  but rob did some work with structured
regular expressions that sound a lot like what you describe,
except there is no xml.

Rob Pike, Structural regular expressions.
Proceedings of the European UNIX User's Group Conference. EUUG, Helsinki, Finland.

doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf

- erik



       reply	other threads:[~2010-01-18 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <c563b2f7-92ac-463a-864c-267721ddb30a@k35g2000yqb.googlegroups.co>
2010-01-18 11:15 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
     [not found] <58d8d6b4960925aab27312e0968a3e26@quintile.net>
2010-01-18 19:39 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-01-18 10:58 Tim Climber
2010-01-18 12:19 ` Steve Simon
2010-01-18 20:04   ` Tim Newsham
2010-01-19  9:59   ` Aharon Robbins
2010-01-19 15:40     ` Steve Simon
2010-01-20 21:13       ` Eris Discordia
2010-01-20 21:41         ` Patrick Kelly
2010-01-21  8:00           ` roger peppe
2010-01-21 12:45         ` maht
2010-01-21 21:36         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-01-22  9:44           ` Eris Discordia
2010-01-19 22:13   ` Andy Spencer
2010-01-18 16:23 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-01-18 19:23 ` Aharon Robbins
2010-01-19 22:33 ` Andy Spencer
2010-01-27 10:44 ` Sam Watkins

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