> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:34:10 EDT erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> > wrote: > > my knee-jerk reaction to my own question is that making it easier > > and more natural to parallelize dataflow. a pipeline is just a really > > low-level way to talk about it. the standard > > grep x *.[ch] > > forces all the *.[ch] to be generated before 1 instance of grep runs on > > whatever *.[ch] evaluates to be. > > Here the shell would have to understand program behavior. > Consider something like > > 8l x.8 y.8 z.8 ... > > This can't be parallelized (but a parallelizable loader can be > written).
ya, ya. improving on rc in a noticable way is hard. and thinking aloud is a bad idea. and a good way to look foolish. - erik
