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From: lgm@cbnewsc.att.com (lawrence.g.mayka)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Lisp shells for Unix (was: Extensible languages....)
Summary: Dick Waters' Series/Generators package supports dataflow and pipefitting
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.134117.11714@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 4 Sep 90 13:41:17 GMT
References: <13198@hydra.gatech.EDU> <YUKNGO.90Aug30165843@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca> <5881@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
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In article <5881@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>, mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer) writes:
> I think the | > sytax of current shells capture the flow of data quite
> nicely. THe lisp syntax above captures the notion of doing functional
> programming with return values, not streams of data. We want a syntax that
> captures the notion of dataflow (see also the comments about computing w/
> "streams" from Abelson & Sussman's SICP Ch. 3.??)... I think that if you're
> expecting to do interesting things with streams, you want to settle on a
> different kind of syntax + semantics than the above.

The Series/Generators package described in Appendices A and B of
"Common Lisp the Language - Second Edition" supports this model.


	Lawrence G. Mayka
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	lgm@iexist.att.com

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