Owen Densmore wrote:
BUT: the pipe paradigm of unix shells allows you to have the input be
a file and the output to be piped into a file or another program.
The browser can be used as a hierarchical blackboard (the DOM) between a
producer and a consumer while JavaScript 1.7's `yield' can switch back
and forth between threads of control (like a pipe). Further, http and
xml can be used to read and write objects in favor of flat files.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/New_in_JavaScript_1.7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest
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