From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:15:37 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <5050b89d9c59adfd0f78ae8d2809f5bd@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] dataflow programming from shell interpreter Topicbox-Message-UUID: c02052da-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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