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The inability of the common people to easily filter a stream is hardly a reason for the elite to base themselves with sequences. It would be a step backward in computing.

Asclepius
– Asclepius

2014-08-18 20:27:21 +00:00
Commented Aug 18, 2014 at 20:27
@A-B-B en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_processes have many more operators than those that ended up in the Thompson shell. There could just have been an operator that is sequential, and which communicated its result to the next process in the sequence as soon as its exits. A "step backward in computing" by providing an additional operator seems a bit harsh.

Anne van Rossum
– Anne van Rossum

2014-08-19 07:09:23 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2014 at 7:09
Nice link, but of course sequential processing is worse in both CPU and memory (or disk) use -- relative to parallel processing. In this instance, if I must first store all ps output before I grep, I'm using more memory (or disk) for longer.

Asclepius
– Asclepius

2014-08-19 19:37:29 +00:00
Commented Aug 19, 2014 at 19:37

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