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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: dataflow shell
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Date: 27 Nov 89 18:17:19 GMT
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>    { { <inputfile1 reader1 }
>      { <inputfile2 reader2 }
>      { synthesizer1 }
>      { synthesizer2 } } merger { { consumer1 >outputfile1 }
>                                  { consumer2 } }

>not circular or DAG-type connections

Although this was not present in my example, feedback loops are very common in
the types of musical applications we were concerned with.  And in particular,
one extra path I would love to add to the above is one directly from each
input synthesizer to an output file.  This could presumably be done by assuming
redirection is non-destructive.  I don't see how to anything more complex than
that.  But this makes a good start.

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Marc Sabatella
HP Colorado Language Lab
marc%hpfcrt@hplabs.hp.com