At 16:22 -0400 98/06/16, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
>
>...interprocess communications....
>Unix shell pipes provide a really nice way to do IPC e.g.
>
>$ cat file | grep blah | wc -l
>
>Haskell lists and laziness allow something similar but mich
>more sophisticated.

  One can think of pipes as function composition, i.e. putting
    f = cat(file)
    g = grep(blah)
    h = wc(-l)
then the line above is h(g(f)).

  Hans Aberg
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