Pipes and Filters

Re:Pipes and Filters by visarga on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @12:19AM (#8328584)

Pipes are also related to the IO monad, similar in a way with the jQuery syntax which is another hugely popular case. I am utterly amazed how they invented such a powerful concept of functional programming for the shell (well, not 100% pure functional, if there are side effects)

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Re:Pipes and Filters by ky3 on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @01:23AM (#8328708)

utterly amazed how they invented such a powerful concept of functional programming for the shell

You might be interested in the classic McIlroy-Knuth dialogue:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...

The Unix "Software Tools" philosophy -- small kits composable into something big -- is deeply shared by functional programming.

I don't think one begot the other. It was just obviously the natural thing to do during that era.

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Re:Pipes and Filters by vram22 on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @03:11PM (#8331808)

>You might be interested in the classic McIlroy-Knuth dialogue:

Yes, that was a good article. The comments on the post were interesting too. Saw it a while ago, and for fun, wrote two quick solutions for the problem, in Python and shell:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/the-bentley-knuth-problem-...

A reader, Veky, wrote an interesting comment on my post too.

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