Functional programming and the death of the Unix Way

Re:Functional programming and the death of the Unix Way by andrewflnr on Sunday March 25, 2012 @10:07PM (#3754600)

I wonder, does this mean we actually want types as metadata on our shell commands? Type of args, type of stdin, type of stdout, or whatever we decide to call them?

All apps would have to speak a single, more complicated language and we would have to do more explicit translation but it might work out better.

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Re:Functional programming and the death of the Unix Way by luriel on Sunday March 25, 2012 @11:18PM (#3754814)

Aren't Go channels similar to typed pipes?

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Re:Functional programming and the death of the Unix Way by andrewflnr on Monday March 26, 2012 @12:02AM (#3754929)

I guess, but they're not exactly cross-language inter-process communication. Maybe you could work something like them into the OS, though.

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