From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Tech Sq elevator (Was: screen editors)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:41:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200112214152.9824C156E42D@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:44:30 -0800." <202001122044.00CKiUNV573279@darkstar.fourwinds.com>
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:44:30 -0800 Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:
>
> I wasn't being snarky. You said
>
> "The output is seen as truth because the representation is for some
> reason too hard to get at or too hard to cascade through the system."
>
> I honestly have no idea what that means.
>
> Likewise,
>
> "There's a total comedy of work going on in the unix way of
> a wc pipeline versus calling a length function on a list."
>
> I just don't know what you mean.
May be this is not what Kevin meant but the way I interpreted
his message: smushing everything down to strings for output as
in unix pipelines loses any underlying structure which then
may have to be rediscovered by the next program in the
pipeline by parsing. This is slower, indirect and errorprone.
If one can communicate a structured representation of data between
components that would be better.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-12 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-12 13:43 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-12 16:56 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-12 17:21 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-12 20:25 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-12 20:32 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-12 20:34 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-12 20:40 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-12 20:44 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-12 21:03 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-12 21:37 ` [TUHS] Tech Sq elevator (Was: screen editors) [ really I think efficiency now ] Jon Steinhart
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[not found] ` <CAEoi9W6LedGGjWPO=ZgZzVdGLqs8drhqcWkvA_DfKTOtMDgegQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-01-13 23:46 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-14 23:17 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-18 15:45 ` Michael Parson
2020-01-18 18:45 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-18 18:59 ` Michael Parson
2020-01-18 20:31 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-21 21:57 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-01-22 7:21 ` arnold
2020-01-22 7:29 ` Tyler Adams
2020-01-12 21:41 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2020-01-12 21:47 ` [TUHS] Tech Sq elevator (Was: screen editors) Jon Steinhart
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2020-01-12 22:25 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-12 22:40 ` Kevin Bowling
2020-01-10 17:27 Noel Chiappa
2020-01-10 20:18 ` Angelo Papenhoff
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