On Tue, April 10, 2007 12:09 pm, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > On 4/10/07, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, April 9, 2007 8:58 pm, Darren New wrote: >> > Chuck Esterbrook wrote: >> >> pipes approach of the posix command line but for programming >> > >> > I think the general term applied to such concepts overall is "data >> flow >> > languages". You might have better luck searching for that. >> > >> >> My vague memories of C++ output conventions (I'm in therapy for C++ >> PTSD) >> include flash-backs of using << and | in printf statements. Is this what >> you mean? > > No, this would be something more fundamental to the language. Like it > would give the language a different feel throughout your code, not > just for I/O. >
Hmm ... centuries ago I took a C/Unix programming course in which we simulated (actually, recreated) the pipe function by overwriting the stdin of a process with the stdout of another. Are you saying there might be languages based on this? Because I would think that any scripting language (like Tcl) that allows new commands to be added using C could easily develop a couple of commands that would do that (and undo it afterward). But because I have no feel for how it would be used in programming (other than what could be done by opening a pipe file or calling a pipe in a shell), I'd probably botch it. Or am I just not getting this? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
