> Take Python, which is supposedly a "scripting" language, but requires relatively painful amounts of boilerplate to actually read from or write to pipes, etc.
It's a shame Scheme Shell didn't catch on more. That had a syntax for pipes that simply used the pipe symbol in a way that feels a lot like just using pipes in bash. Unforunately, the project page is down, and the Wikipedia entry doesn't have the best examples.
It's a shame Scheme Shell didn't catch on more. That had a syntax for pipes that simply used the pipe symbol in a way that feels a lot like just using pipes in bash. Unforunately, the project page is down, and the Wikipedia entry doesn't have the best examples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsh