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From: Joe <joe@celo.io>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: STDIN/OUT vs APIs [was: How Unix changed Software]
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 17:39:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <79ddeb2d-e9ac-da73-7bda-675c3bb867c9@celo.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD2gp_SgY74GxWtMg7nsXFJhd4ZVZpUFnBLzedkN87WixGHhkg@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/7/22 15:19, John Cowan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 8:54 AM Brian Zick <brian@zick.io> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I am very curious to hear more about the implications and practical
>> benefits of this from folks that have thoroughly explored it. In my
>> experience I’ve mainly used APIs, and I’m having trouble imagining the
>> other approach other than for text-processing.
>>
> 
> See <https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/> for an explanation of Flow-Based
> Programming, a realization of the same pipelining idea, but extended to
> arbitrary directed graphs with multiple input and output ports.  It was
> developed in complete ignorance of Unix pipelines except by bare and
> misleading report, and in entirely distinct application domains, yet with
> exact convergence.  "It steam-engines when it comes steam-engine time."
> 

That page reminds me of CMS/Pipelines, a beautiful Rexx-like language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS_Pipelines

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-07 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-05 23:48 [TUHS] Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software steve jenkin
2022-09-06 16:09 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2022-09-07  4:00   ` steve jenkin
2022-09-07 14:58     ` John Cowan
2022-09-07 17:13     ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-08 14:12       ` Paul Winalski
2022-09-07  5:15   ` steve jenkin
2022-09-07 13:20     ` Dan Cross
2022-09-07 13:52       ` Steve Nickolas
2022-09-07 12:53 ` [TUHS] STDIN/OUT vs APIs [was: How Unix changed Software] Brian Zick
2022-09-07 13:19   ` [TUHS] " John Cowan
2022-09-07 15:39     ` Joe [this message]
2022-09-07 15:43       ` John Cowan
2022-09-07 16:01         ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)

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