[TUHS] STDIN/OUT vs APIs [was: How Unix changed Software]

[Joe]

On 9/7/22 15:19, John Cowan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 8:54 AM Brian Zick <brian at zick.io> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I am very curious to hear more about the implications and practical
>> benefits of this from folks that have thoroughly explored it. In my
>> experience I’ve mainly used APIs, and I’m having trouble imagining the
>> other approach other than for text-processing.
>>
> 
> See <https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/> for an explanation of Flow-Based
> Programming, a realization of the same pipelining idea, but extended to
> arbitrary directed graphs with multiple input and output ports.  It was
> developed in complete ignorance of Unix pipelines except by bare and
> misleading report, and in entirely distinct application domains, yet with
> exact convergence.  "It steam-engines when it comes steam-engine time."
> 

That page reminds me of CMS/Pipelines, a beautiful Rexx-like language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMS_Pipelines